Point in time view as at 01/03/2007.
Health and Social Care Act 2001, Introductory Text is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 03 March 2025. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations.
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:—
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Act: power to exclude or modify conferred (1.8.2001 for E. and otherwise prosp.) by 1977 c. 49, s. 84B(7)(8) (as inserted by 2001 c. 15, ss. 13(1), 70(2) (with ss. 64(9), 65(4)); S.I. 2001/2804, art. 2(1)(a) (subject to art. 2(2))
C2Act 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
C3Act 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)
C4Act extended in part (Isles of Scilly) (with modifications) (8.4.2003) by The Health and Social Care Act 2001 (Isles of Scilly) (No. 2) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/761), art. 2(2)(a)
C5Act extended in part (Isles of Scilly) (with modifications) (21.6.2004) by The Health and Social Care Act 2001 (Isles of Scilly) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/1425), art. 2
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