The National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) (Wales) Regulations 2007

Welsh Statutory Instruments

2007 No. 1104 (W.116)

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, WALES

The National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) (Wales) Regulations 2007

Made

27 March 2007

Coming into force

1 April 2007

The National Assembly for Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 130, 131, and 203(9) and (10) of the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006(1) hereby makes the following Regulations:

(1)

The National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006 (c. 42) (“the 2006 Act”) is a consolidation Act which repeals and re-enacts in its entirety the National Health Service Act 1977 (c. 49) (“the 1977 Act”) and incorporates some of the provisions from the NHS and Community Care Act 1990, the Health Act 1999, the Health and Social Care Act 2001, the NHS Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002, the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 and the Health Act 2006.

Sections 130 and 131 of the 2006 are equivalent to section 83A of the 1977 Act.

Section 203(9) and (10) of the 2006 Act are equivalent to section 126(4) of the 1977 Act.

The references to “Welsh Ministers” in the 2006 Act are treated as referring to the National Assembly for Wales as constituted by the Government of Wales Act 1998 (c. 38) in accordance with the modifications contained in the National Health Service (Consequential Provisions) Act 2006 (c. 43), section 5 and Schedule 3, paragraph 10.

References to and functions of the National Assembly for Wales will transfer to Welsh Ministers immediately after the end of the “initial period” (as defined in section 161(5) in accordance with sections 162 of and paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32).