The Primary Care Trusts (Membership, Procedure and Administration Arrangements) Amendment Regulations 2004

Statutory Instruments

2004 No. 18

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND

The Primary Care Trusts (Membership, Procedure and Administration Arrangements) Amendment Regulations 2004

Made

8th January 2004

Laid before Parliament

14th January 2004

Coming into force

1st March 2004

The Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 126(3) and (4) of, and paragraph 5 of Schedule 5A to, the National Health Service Act 1977(1) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

(1)

1977 c. 49; section 126(3) was amended by section 65(2) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19) (“the 1990 Act”) and section 41(1) of, and paragraph 27 of Schedule 2 to, the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997 (c. 46); section 126(4) was amended by section 65(2) of the 1990 Act, section 65(1) of, and paragraphs 4 and 37(1) and (6) of Schedule 4 to, the Health Act 1999 (c. 8) (“the 1999 Act”), section 67(1) of, and paragraph 5(1) and (13)(b) of Schedule 5 to, the Health and Social Care Act 2001 (c. 15) and sections 6(3)(c) and 37(1) of, and paragraphs 1 and 10(a) of Schedule 8 to, the National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 (c. 17). 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.