The National Patient Safety Agency (Establishment and Constitution) Amendment Order 2003

Statutory Instruments

2003 No. 1077

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND

The National Patient Safety Agency (Establishment and Constitution) Amendment Order 2003

Made

8th April 2003

Laid before Parliament

15th April 2003

Coming into force

2nd July 2003

The Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 11(2) and (4) and 126(3) of the National Health Service Act 1977(1) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

(1)

1977 (c. 49); section 11 was amended by paragraph 2 of Schedule 1 to the Health Authorities Act 1995 (c. 17) (“the 1995 Act”) and by paragraph 6 of Schedule 4 to the Health Act 1999 (c. 8) (“the 1999 Act”); section 126(3) was amended by section 65(2) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19) (“the 1990 Act”), paragraph 57 of Schedule 1 to the 1995 Act and section 41(10) of, and paragraph 27 of Schedule 2 to, the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997 (c. 46) (“the 1997 Act”). The functions of the Secretary of State under these provisions are, so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by article 2(a) of the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999, S.I. 1999/672, as amended by section 66(5) of the 1999 Act.