The National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 (Commencement No. 1) Order 2002

Appointed day for provisions relating to the National Health Service

3.  2nd September 2002 is the day appointed for the coming into force of—

(a) paragraphs 3, 4, 6, 7 and 19 of Schedule 1 to the Act and section 1 of, and paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to, the Act (English Health Authorities: change of name) in so far as they relate to those paragraphs;

(b) paragraphs 31 and 32 of Schedule 2 to the Act (reallocation of functions of Health Authorities to Primary Care Trusts) and section 2 of the Act (Primary Care Trusts) in so far as it relates to those paragraphs;

(c) section 3(2) and (5)(a) and (b) of the Act (Directions: distribution of functions);

(d) section 3(3) of the Act (which substitutes a new section 17A into the National Health Service Act 1977(1)) for the purpose only of making directions by the Secretary of State under section 17A(3) and (4) of the latter Act; and

(e) section 3(1) of the Act in so far as it relates to the provisions referred to in sub-paragraphs (c) and (d) of this article.

(1)

1997 c. 49. Section 17A was inserted by the Health Act 1999 (c. 8) (“the 1999 Act”), section 12(1).