The Health Services (Primary Care) (1997 Order) (Commencement No. 4) Order (Northern Ireland) 2004

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2004 No. 133 (C. 5)

HEALTH AND PERSONAL SOCIAL SERVICES

The Health Services (Primary Care) (1997 Order) (Commencement No. 4) Order (Northern Ireland) 2004

Made

25th March 2004

The Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety(1) in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Article 1(2) of the Health Services (Primary Care) (Northern Ireland) Order 1997(2) and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and interpretation

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Health Services (Primary Care) (1997 Order) (Commencement No. 4) Order (Northern Ireland) 2004.

(2) In this Order:

“the 1997 Order” means the Health Services (Primary Care) (Northern Ireland) Order 1997.

Appointed days

2.—(1) The day appointed for the coming into operation of Article 21 of the 1997 Order (Provision of personal medical services or personal dental services), in so far as it relates to the provision of personal medical services and Article 22 of the 1997 Order (Supplementary regulations) is 1st April 2004.

(2) 1st April 2004 is the day appointed for the coming into operation of Schedule 2 to the 1997 Order insofar as those provisions relate to –

(a) the insertion in Article 2(2) of the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972(3) of the definitions of “health services body” and “statutory provision”; and

(b) the amendments to Article 10 of the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1991(4).

Revocation

3.  Article 3(2) of the Health Services (Primary Care) (1997 Order) (Commencement No. 2) Order (Northern Ireland) 1998(5) is hereby revoked.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety on 25th March 2004.

L.S.

Dr. J. F. Livingstone

Senior Officer of the

Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order.)

This Order brings into operation on 1st April 2004 certain provisions of the Health Services (Primary Care) (Northern Ireland) Order 1997, namely Article 21 (Provision of personal medical services or dental services), but only in so far as it refers to personal medical services, Article 22 (Supplementary regulations) and Schedule 2, in so far as the amendments in that Schedule are relevant to those provisions.

Note as to Earlier Commencement Orders

(This note is not part of the Order.)

The following provisions of the 1997 Order have been brought into operation by the Health Services (Primary Care) (1997 Order) (Commencement No. 1) Order (Northern Ireland) 1997 (S.R. 1997 No. 524 (C. 31)):

Provision	Date of Commencement
Article 1	12th January 1998
Article 2	12th January 1998
Article 3	12th January 1998
Article 4	12th January 1998
Article 5	12th January 1998
Article 6	12th January 1998
Article 7	12th January 1998
Article 8	12th January 1998
Article 11	12th January 1998
Article 14(1) and (3) to (8)	12th January 1998
Article 17	12th January 1998
Article 18	12th January 1998
Article 27	12th January 1998
Article 28	12th January 1998
Article 29	12th January 1998
Article 30	12th January 1998
Article 31	12th January 1998
Article 32(3) and (4)	12th January 1998

The following provisions of the 1997 Order have been brought into operation by the Health Services (Primary Care) (1997 Order) (Commencement No. 2) Order (Northern Ireland) 1998 (S.R. 1998 No. 301 (C. 13)):

Provision	Date of Commencement
Article 9	1st April 1999
Article 10	1st April 1999
Article 12	1st April 1999
Article 13	1st April 1999
Article 14(2) and (9)	1st April 1999
Article 16	1st April 1999
Article 19	1st April 1999
Article 20	1st April 1999
Article 23	1st April 1999
Article 24	1st April 1999
Article 32(2) and Schedule 3	1st April 1999
Schedule 1	1st April 1999
Article 32(1) of, and Schedule 2 to, the 1997 Order, in so far as those provisions relate to the amendment to Articles 63(1) and 64(2) of the 1972 Order	1st September 1998
Article 32(1) of, and Schedule 2 to, the 1997 Order, in so far as those provisions relate to the amendment to Article 8 of the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1991	1st November 1998
Article 32(1) of, and those provisions of Schedule 2 to, the 1997 Order not already in operation, or otherwise brought into operation by this Order, with the exception of – (a) the insertion in Article 2(2) of the 1972 Order of the definitions of “health services body”, “medical lists”, “personal dental services”, “personal medical services” and “statutory provision”; and (b) the amendments to Articles 10 and 17(1) of the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1991.	1st April 1999

The following provisions of the 1997 Order have been brought into operation by the Health Services (Primary Care) (1997 Order) (Commencement No. 3) Order (Northern Ireland) 1999 (S.R. 1999 No. 71 (C. 8)):

Provision	Date of Commencement
Amendment to Article 3 of the Health Services (Primary Care) (1997 Order) (Commencement No. 2) Order (Northern Ireland) 1998	1st April 1999

(1)

See S.I. 1999/283 (N.I. 1) Article 3(6)

(2)

S.I. 1997/1177(N.I. 7)

(3)

S.I. 1972/1265 (N.I. 14)

(4)

S.I. 1991/194 (N.I. 14)

(5)

S.R. 1998 No.301 (c. 13)