The National Health Service (Primary Dental Services and General Ophthalmic Services) (Amendment) Regulations 2017

Statutory Instruments

2017 No. 1056

National Health Service

The National Health Service (Primary Dental Services and General Ophthalmic Services) (Amendment) Regulations 2017

Made

1st November 2017

Laid before Parliament

3rd November 2017

Coming into force in accordance with regulation 1(2) and (3)

The Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 101(1), 104(1) and (2)(a), 109(1) and (3), 115(1) and (2)(c), 116(2) and (3), 121(1), 179(1), 180(1), (3) and (11) and 272(7) and (8)(a) of the National Health Service Act 2006(1), makes the following Regulations.

(1)

2006 c. 41. The National Health Service Act 2006 (“the Act”) was amended by the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c.7) (“the 2012 Act”). Section 104 was amended by paragraph 46 of Schedule 4 to the 2012 Act. Section 109 was amended by paragraph 50 of Schedule 4 to the 2012 Act, and by section 17(5) of, and paragraph 52 of Schedule 9 to the Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c.22). Section 115 was amended by paragraph 54 of Schedule 4 to the 2012 Act. Section 121 was amended by paragraph 59 of Schedule 4 to the 2012 Act. Section 180(1) was amended by Schedule 6 to the Health Act 2009 (c.21) and section 205 of, and paragraph 96(1) and (2) of Schedule 4 to, the 2012 Act. See section 275(1) of the Act for the meaning given to “prescribed” and “regulations”. The powers exercised in making these Regulations are exercisable by the Secretary of State in relation to England only, by virtue of section 271(1) of the Act.