s 271A Services to be treated as services of the Crown for certain purposes
(1) Services to which this section applies are to be treated as services of the Crown for the purposes of— (a) Schedule 1 to the Registered Designs Act 1949 (provisions as to the use of registered designs for the services of the Crown etc. ), and (b) sections 55 to 59 of the Patents Act 1977 (use of patented inventions for the services of the Crown). (2) This section applies to services provided in pursuance of— (a) the functions of NHS England or an integrated care board under section 3, 3A, 3B or 4 or Schedule 1, or (b) the public health functions of a local authority.