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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-injuries-nhs-charges-amounts-scotland-amendment-regulations-2023/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2023/34",
  "legislation_title": "The Personal Injuries (NHS Charges) (Amounts) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-injuries-nhs-charges-amounts-scotland-amendment-regulations-2023",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "National Health Service\nMade 8th February 2023\nLaid before the Scottish Parliament 10th February 2023\nComing into force 1st April 2023\nThe Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 153(2) and (5), 163(1) and 195(1) and (2) of the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 and all other powers enabling them to do so.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2003 c. 43 (“the 2003 Act”), relevantly amended by paragraph 1 of schedule 4 of the National Health Service (Consequential Provisions) Act 2006 (c. 43). By virtue of section 167(1) of the 2003 Act any power to make regulations in relation to the recovery of NHS charges is exercisable in relation to Scotland by the Scottish Ministers. Section 168 of the 2003 Act contains a definition of “prescribed” relevant to the exercise of the statutory powers under which these Regulations are made."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2023/34/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:46:46.862387+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."
}