Health and Social Care Act 2012

230 Consequential provisions and savings, etc.

(1) Parts 1 to 3 of Schedule 15 (which contain minor and consequential amendments and savings relating to the preceding provisions of this Part) have effect.

(2) The Privy Council may by order make transitional, transitory or saving provision in connection with the commencement of the preceding provisions of this Part.

(3) The quorum for the exercise of the power under subsection (2) is two.

(4) Anything done by the Privy Council under subsection (2) is sufficiently signified by an instrument signed by the Clerk of the Council.

(5) In section 38 of the National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 (regulations and orders), after subsection (4) insert—

“(4A) The quorum for the exercise by the Privy Council of the power under section 25A, 27 or 28 or paragraph 6 of Schedule 7 is two; and anything done by the Privy Council under either of those sections or that paragraph is sufficiently signified by an instrument signed by the Clerk of the Council.”

(6) The amendments made by this Part to an Order in Council under section 60 of the Health Act 1999 do not affect the power to make a further Order in Council under that section amending or revoking provision made by those amendments.