Point in time view as at 01/04/2006. This version of this provision has been superseded.
There are currently no known outstanding effects for the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003, Section 46.
(1)The Secretary of State may prepare and publish statements of standards in relation to the provision of health care by and for English NHS bodies and cross-border SHAs.
(2)The Secretary of State must keep the standards under review and may publish amended statements whenever he considers it appropriate.
(3)The Secretary of State must consult such persons as he considers appropriate—
(a)before publishing a statement under this section;
(b)before publishing an amended statement under this section which in the opinion of the Secretary of State effects a substantial change in the standards.
(4)The standards set out in statements under this section are to be taken into account by every English NHS body and cross-border SHA in discharging its duty under section 45.
Commencement Information
I1S. 46 in force at 1.4.2004 by S.I. 2004/759, art. 9
The Whole Act without Schedules you have selected contains over 200 provisions and might take some time to download. You may also experience some issues with your browser, such as an alert box that a script is taking a long time to run.
Would you like to continue?
The Whole Act without Schedules you have selected contains over 200 provisions and might take some time to download.
Would you like to continue?
All content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 except where otherwise stated. This site additionally contains content derived from EUR-Lex, reused under the terms of the Commission Decision 2011/833/EU on the reuse of documents from the EU institutions. For more information see the EUR-Lex public statement on re-use.
