{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-scotland-act-1978/section-36",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-scotland-act-1978/section-36.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1978/29",
  "legislation_title": "National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-scotland-act-1978",
  "path": "section/36",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "36",
  "heading": "Accommodation and services.",
  "text": "(1) It shall be the duty of the Secretary of State to provide throughout Scotland, to such extent as he considers necessary to meet all reasonable requirements, accommodation and services of the following descriptions—\n(a) hospital accommodation, including accommodation at state hospitals;\n(b) premises other than hospitals at which facilities are available for any of the services provided under this Act or under the 2021 Act;\n(c) medical, nursing and other services, whether in such accommodation or premises, in the home of the patient or elsewhere.\n(2) Where accommodation or premises provided under this section afford facilities for the provision of . . . general dental or general ophthalmic services, or of pharmaceutical services, they shall be made available for those services on such terms and conditions as the Secretary of State may determine.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 36(1)(b) inserted (1.4.2022) by Forensic Medical Services (Victims of Sexual Offences) (Scotland) Act 2021 (asp 3), s. 20(2), sch. para. 1(6) (with s. 3); S.S.I. 2022/24, reg. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 36(2) omitted (1.2.2006) by virtue of The Primary Medical Services (Scotland) Act 2004 (Modification of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978) Order 2006 (S.S.I. 2006/30), {art. 2(4)}"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 36 restricted (1.1.2003) by S.S.I. 2002/533, reg. 5(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 36(1): functions transferred (27.6.2002) by S.S.I. 2002/305, art. 4(2)(c) (with art. 4(4))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1978/29/section/36",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:30:48.038600+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}