
Print Options
PrintThe Whole
Act
PrintThe Whole
Part
PrintThe Whole
Chapter
PrintThe Whole
Cross Heading
PrintThis
Section
only
Status:
Point in time view as at 01/10/2006. This version of this provision has been superseded.

Status
You are viewing this legislation item as it stood at a particular point in time. A later version of this or provision, including subsequent changes and effects, supersedes this version.
Note the term provision is used to describe a definable element in a piece of legislation that has legislative effect – such as a Part, Chapter or section.
Changes to legislation:
There are currently no known outstanding effects for the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003, Section 54.

Changes to Legislation
Revised legislation carried on this site may not be fully up to date. At the current time any known changes or effects made by subsequent legislation have been applied to the text of the legislation you are viewing by the editorial team. Please see ‘Frequently Asked Questions’ for details regarding the timescales for which new effects are identified and recorded on this site.
54Functions relating to Secretary of State and AssemblyE+W
This section has no associated Explanatory Notes
(1)The CHAI is to keep the appropriate authority informed about the provision of health care by and for any NHS body.
(2)The CHAI may at any time give advice to the appropriate authority on any matter connected with the provision of such health care (including, in particular, advice on any changes which it thinks should be made to the standards under section 46 or 47[, or any code of practice issued under section 47A,] for the purpose of securing improvement in the quality of the health care).
(3)When requested to do so by the appropriate authority, the CHAI must give the authority advice or information on such matters connected with the provision of health care by or for any NHS body as may be specified in the request.
(4)The CHAI may give advice to the appropriate authority or any NHS body about the establishment or conduct of any inquiry held, or to be held, by the authority or the body in relation to the provision of health care by or for that body.
(5)In this section, the “appropriate authority” means—
(a)the Secretary of State, in relation to the provision of health care by or for an English NHS body or cross-border SHA; or
(b)the Assembly, in relation to the provision of health care by or for a Welsh NHS body.
Textual Amendments
Commencement Information
Back to top