The Local Authority (Overview and Scrutiny Committees Health Scrutiny Functions) Regulations 2002

Statutory Instruments

2002 No. 3048

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND

The Local Authority (Overview and Scrutiny Committees Health Scrutiny Functions) Regulations 2002

Made

11th December 2002

Laid before Parliament

11th December 2002

Coming into force

1st January 2003

The Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 7(3) and (4), 8(2), (3) and (4) and 64(6) to (8) of the Health and Social Care Act 2001(1) and by sections 17 and 126(4) of the National Health Service Act 1977(2) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

(1)

2001 c. 15. Section 7 of the Health and Social Care Act 2001 (“the Act”) was amended by the National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 (c. 17) (“the 2002 Act”), section 21 and Schedule 1, paragraph 55(2); see section 66 of the Act for the definition of “relevant authority” and “regulations”.

(2)

1977 c. 49. Section 17 was amended by sections 2(1) and 8 of, and Schedule 1 paragraph 8 to, the Health Authorities Act 1995, section 12(1) of the Health Act 1999 (“the 1999 Act”), section 1(3) of, and Schedule 1 Part 1 paragraphs 1 and 7 to, the 2002 Act, and section 67(1) of, and Schedule 5 Part 1 paragraph 5(1) and (3) to, the Act; section 126(4) was amended by section 67(1) of, and Schedule 5 Part 1 paragraphs 5(1) and 13(b) to, the Act, section 65(2) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990, sections 6(3)(c) and 37(1) of, and Schedule 8 paragraphs 1 and 10(a) to, the 2002 Act, and section 65(1) of, and Schedule 4 paragraphs 4, 37(1) and (6) to, the 1999 Act.