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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patient-rights-scotland-act-2011/schedule/paragraph-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patient-rights-scotland-act-2011/schedule/paragraph-7.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2011/5",
  "legislation_title": "Patient Rights (Scotland) Act 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patient-rights-scotland-act-2011",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Regard is had to the importance of providing the optimum benefit to the patient's health and wellbeing.\n(2) Sub-paragraph (1) does not apply in relation to the exercise of functions conferred by the 2021 Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. para. 7 renumbered as sch. para. 7(1) (1.4.2022) by Forensic Medical Services (Victims of Sexual Offences) (Scotland) Act 2021 (asp 3), s. 20(2), sch. para. 4(5)(a)(i) (with s. 3); S.S.I. 2022/24, reg. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. para. 7(2) inserted (1.4.2022) by Forensic Medical Services (Victims of Sexual Offences) (Scotland) Act 2021 (asp 3), s. 20(2), sch. para. 4(5)(a)(ii) (with s. 3); S.S.I. 2022/24, reg. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. para. 7 in force at 1.4.2012 by S.S.I. 2012/35, art. 2(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2011/5/schedule/paragraph/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:15:11.512929+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."
}