{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-patient-safety-agency-establishment-and-constitution-order-2001/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-patient-safety-agency-establishment-and-constitution-order-2001/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/1743",
  "legislation_title": "The National Patient Safety Agency (Establishment and Constitution) Order 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-patient-safety-agency-establishment-and-constitution-order-2001",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Functions of the Agency",
  "text": "Subject to and in accordance with such directions as the Secretary of State may give, the Agency shall perform—\n(a) such functions in connection with securing improvements in the quality of care and treatment provided for persons under the health service, and\n(b) such other functions,\nas the Secretary of State may direct.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See, in particular, sections 16D, 17 and 18 of the National Health Service Act 1977 (c. 49); sections 16D and 17 were inserted by section 12(1) of the 1999 Act. Section 18 was amended by Schedule 10 to the 1990 Act, by section 3(8) of the 1995 Act, by paragraph 9 of Schedule 1 to the 1995 Act and by section 12(3) of the 1999 Act."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/504",
      "affecting_title": "The National Patient Safety Agency (Establishment and Constitution) Amendment Order 2005"
    },
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2012/476",
      "affecting_title": "The Special Health Authorities (Establishment and Constitution Orders) Amendment Order 2012"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted for art. 3(a)-(d)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2012/1424",
      "affecting_title": "The National Patient Safety Agency (Establishment and Constitution) (Amendment) Order 2012"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/1743/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:49:23.349837+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."
}