The Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 Commencement (No. 2) Order 2004

Appointed days for provisions relating to primary medical services

2.—(1) 3rd February 2004 is the appointed day for the coming into force of the following provisions of the Act—

(a) section 179(1) as it relates to new section 28X(1) and (3) to (7) of the 1977 Act and section 179(2);

(b) for the purposes of making regulations, paragraph 23 of Schedule 11 to the extent that it inserts section 45A(9) of the 1977 Act and section 184 and paragraph 7 of that Schedule in so far as they relate to that section; and

(c) in Schedule 11, paragraph 38 and paragraph 39 in so far as it inserts the definition of “primary medical services” into section 128(1) of the 1977 Act and section 184 and paragraph 7 of that Schedule as they relate to those paragraphs.

(2) 1st March 2004 is the appointed day for the coming into force of—

(a) section 174 in so far as it relates to new section 16CC(2) and (4) of the 1977 Act;

(b) section 180 in so far as it relates to the new section 28Y of the 1977 Act in its application to primary medical services; and

(c) paragraph 8 of Schedule 11 and section 184 and paragraph 7 of that Schedule in so far as they relate to that paragraph.

(3) 1st April 2004 is the appointed day for the coming into force of section 174 in so far as it relates to new section 16CC(1) of the 1977 Act.