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Health and Social Care Act 2001
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Health and Social Care Act 2001
2001 CHAPTER 15
an Act to amend the law about the national health service; to provide for the exercise of functions by Care Trusts under partnership arrangements under the Health Act 1999 and to make further provision in relation to such arrangements; to make further provision in relation to social care services; to make provision in relation to the supply or other processing of patient information; to extend the categories of appropriate practitioners in relation to prescription-only medicinal products; and for connected purposes.
[11th May 2001]
Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
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C1Act extended in part (Isles of Scilly) (with modifications) (8.2.2003) by The Health and Social Care Act 2001 (Isles of Scilly) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/49), art. 2
C2Act power to exclude or apply (with modifications) conferred by 1977 c. 49, s. 84B(7)(8) (as inserted (17.3.2003 for W. in so far as not already in force) by Health and Social Care Act 2001 (c. 15), ss. 13(1), 70(2) (with ss. 64(9), 65(4)); S.I. 2003/713, art. 2)
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