Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972 (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 1999 and shall come into operation on 23rd February 1999.

Amendments of the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972

2.  Article 98(1) of the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972(1) shall be amended as follows–

(a)after “the 1991 Order” there shall be inserted “or the Health Services (Primary Care) (Northern Ireland) Order 1997”; and

(b)after “this Order”, in the second place where those words occur, there shall be inserted “or the Health Services (Primary Care) (Northern Ireland) Order 1997”.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health and Social Services on 12th January 1999.

L.S.

Joan Dixon

Assistant Secretary