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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-scotland-act-2019/section-120",
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  "legislation": "asp/2019/17",
  "legislation_title": "Transport (Scotland) Act 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-scotland-act-2019",
  "path": "section/120",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "120",
  "heading": "Health boards: duty to have regard to community benefit in non-emergency patient transport contracts",
  "text": "Before entering into a contract for the provision of non-emergency patient transport services, each health board must have regard to the extent to which the contract will improve the economic, social or environmental wellbeing of the board's area in a way additional to the main purpose of the contract in which the requirement is included.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 120 in force at 1.10.2023 by S.S.I. 2023/250, sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2019/17/section/120",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:12:55.874249+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."
}