The Health and Social Care Information Centre (Transfer of Functions, Abolition and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2023

Citation, commencement, extent and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Health and Social Care Information Centre (Transfer of Functions, Abolition and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2023.

(2) Subject to paragraphs (3) and (4), these Regulations come into force the day after the day on which they are made.

(3) The following come into force at the same time as section 2 of the Access to Medical Treatments (Innovation) Act 2016 (database of innovative treatments)(1)—

(a) paragraph 17(5)(e) of the Schedule insofar as it inserts paragraph (c) of the definition of “relevant data functions” into section 253(3) of the 2012 Act;

(b) paragraph 19 of the Schedule;

(c) regulation 2(1) insofar as it relates to the provisions commenced by paragraphs (a) and (b).

(4) The following come into force at the same time as section 98 of the Health and Care Act 2022 (collection of information from private health care providers)—

(a) paragraph 17(11)(a)(iii) of the Schedule;

(b) regulation 2(1) insofar as it relates to that paragraph.

(5) Except as provided in paragraphs (6) and (7), these Regulations extend to England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

(6) The following extend to England and Wales only—

(a) regulation 2(2);

(b) regulations 3 to 5.

(7) An amendment, repeal or revocation made by these Regulations has the same extent as the provision amended, repealed or revoked.

(8) In these Regulations—

“the 2012 Act” means the Health and Social Care Act 2012(2);

“the Information Centre” means the Health and Social Care Information Centre, the body corporate established under section 252 of the 2012 Act;

“NHS England” means the body corporate established under section 1H of the National Health Service Act 2006(3).

(1)

2016 c. 9.

(2)

2012 c. 7 (“the 2012 Act”).

(3)

2006 c. 41. Section 1H was inserted by section 9(1) of the 2012 Act. Section 1 of, and Schedule 1 to, the Health and Care Act 2022 (c. 31) (“the 2022 Act”) renamed the National Health Service Commissioning Board, the body corporate established under section 1H, “NHS England”, and made consequential amendments. Under paragraph 1(3) of Schedule 1 to the 2022 Act, a reference to the NHS Commissioning Board in any enactment (apart from the 2022 Act) passed before the day on which section 1 of that Act comes into force (1 July 2022), and in any instrument or other document made before that day, is to be read, in relation to any time on or after that day, as a reference to NHS England.