{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/smoking-health-and-social-care-scotland-act-2005/section-24",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/smoking-health-and-social-care-scotland-act-2005/section-24.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2005/13",
  "legislation_title": "Smoking, Health and Social Care (Scotland) Act 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/smoking-health-and-social-care-scotland-act-2005",
  "path": "section/24",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "24",
  "heading": "Assistance and support: primary medical services and pharmaceutical care services",
  "text": "After section 17X of the 1978 Act (as inserted by section 23 above), insert—\n“Assistance and support: primary medical services and pharmaceutical care services\nAssistance and support: primary medical services and pharmaceutical care services\n17Y (1) A Health Board may provide assistance and support to—\n(a) any person providing, or proposing to provide, primary medical services under a general medical services contract;\n(b) any person providing, or proposing to provide, such services in accordance with section 17C arrangements;\n(c) any person providing, or proposing to provide, pharmaceutical care services under a pharmaceutical care services contract.\n(2) Assistance and support provided by a Health Board under subsection (1) is to be provided on such terms, including terms as to payment, as the Board think fit.\n(3) In this section, “assistance” includes financial assistance.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2005/13/section/24",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:16:22.162612+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."
}