Health Protection Agency Act 2004

10Health care provision: standardsU.K.

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(1)In so far as any health care is provided by or for the Agency it is to be treated for the purposes of the standards provisions as an English NHS body.

(2)Health care must be construed in accordance with section 45 of the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (c. 43).

(3)The standards provisions are Chapters 2, 3 and 10 of Part 2 of that Act.

(4)The references in section 53 of that Act (failings of bodies) to special measures are, in relation to the Agency, references to anything that may be done by the appropriate authority in pursuance of section 4 above.

(5)Section 57 of that Act (studies as to economy and efficiency, etc.) does not apply to the Agency.

(6)This section does not extend to Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

Commencement Information

I1S. 10 in force at 1.4.2005 by S.I. 2005/121, art. 2(2)