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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nhs-bodies-and-local-authorities-partnership-arrangements-regulations-2000/regulation-4",
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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/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Partnership arrangements between NHS bodies and local authorities",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), the partners may enter into any partnership arrangements in relation to the exercise of any—\n(a) NHS functions, and\n(b) health-related functions,\nif the partnership arrangements are likely to lead to an improvement in the way in which those functions are exercised.\n(2) The partners may not enter into any partnership arrangements unless they have consulted jointly such persons as appear to them to be affected by such arrangements.\n(3) The partners may not enter into any partnership arrangements which do not fulfil the objectives set out in the health improvement plan of the Health Authority in whose area the arrangements are to operate.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2015/1940",
      "affecting_title": "The NHS Bodies and Local Authorities Partnership Arrangements (Amendment) Regulations 2015"
    },
    {
      "type": "am (E)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/629",
      "affecting_title": "The NHS Bodies and Local Authorities Partnership Arrangements (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "words 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": "words 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/2012/3094",
      "affecting_title": "The NHS Bodies and Local Authorities (Partnership Arrangements, Care Trusts, Public Health and Local Healthwatch) Regulations 2012"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "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/4",
    "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."
}