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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nhs-bodies-and-local-authorities-partnership-arrangements-regulations-2000/regulation-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2000/617",
  "legislation_title": "NHS Bodies and Local Authorities Partnership Arrangements Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nhs-bodies-and-local-authorities-partnership-arrangements-regulations-2000",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Prescribed NHS bodies and local authorities",
  "text": "(1) The NHS bodies prescribed for the purposes of section 31 of the Act are—\n(a) a Health Authority;\n(b) a Primary Care Trust; and;\n(c) an NHS trust.\n(2) The local authorities prescribed for the purposes of section 31 of the Act are—\n(a) a district council;\n(b) a county council;\n(c) a county borough council;\n(d) a London borough council; and\n(e) the Common Council of the City of London.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See section 8 of the National Health Service Act 1977 as amended by section 1(1) of the Health Authorities Act 1995 (c. 17) and paragraph 5 of Schedule 4 to the Health Act 1999."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See section 16A of the National Health Service Act 1977 inserted by section 2(1) of the Health Act 1999."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "See section 5 of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 as amended by paragraph 69 of Schedule 1 to the Health Authorities Act 1995 and section 13(1) of the Health Act 1999."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "am (E)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/629",
      "affecting_title": "The NHS Bodies and Local Authorities Partnership Arrangements (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "word omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2004/696",
      "affecting_title": "The Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (Supplementary and Consequential Provision) (NHS Foundation Trusts) Order 2004"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2004/696",
      "affecting_title": "The Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (Supplementary and Consequential Provision) (NHS Foundation Trusts) Order 2004"
    },
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2012/3094",
      "affecting_title": "The NHS Bodies and Local Authorities (Partnership Arrangements, Care Trusts, Public Health and Local Healthwatch) Regulations 2012"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2012/3094",
      "affecting_title": "The NHS Bodies and Local Authorities (Partnership Arrangements, Care Trusts, Public Health and Local Healthwatch) Regulations 2012"
    },
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2002/2469",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 (Supplementary, Consequential etc. Provisions) Regulations 2002"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/617/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:19:12.251021+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."
}