National Health Service (Amendment) Act 1986

8 Short title, etc.

(1) This Act may be cited as the National Health Service (Amendment) Act 1986.

(2) In this Act—

• “the 1977 Act” means the [1977 c. 49.] National Health Service Act 1977; and

• “the 1978 Act” means the [1978 c. 29.] National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978.

(3) Section 21(1) of the [1980 c. 53.] Health Services Act 1980 and paragraph 54 of Schedule 1 to that Act shall cease to have effect.

(4) Sections 1 and 2 above shall come into force at the end of the period of three months beginning with the day on which this Act is passed.

(5) Each of the following provisions of this Act—

(a) section 3 above; and

(b) to the extent that it inserts section 13B of the 1978 Act into that Act, section 5 above,

shall come into force on such day as the Secretary of State may by order made by statutory instrument appoint in relation to it.

(6) Section 7 above extends to Northern Ireland only, but apart from that section, subsection (1) above and this subsection, this Act does not extend to Northern Ireland.