Version Superseded: 01/07/2022
Point in time view as at 01/04/2013. This version of this provision has been superseded.
National Health Service Act 2006, Section 1D is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 02 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.
(1)In exercising functions in relation to the health service, the Secretary of State must have regard to the desirability of securing, so far as consistent with the interests of the health service—
(a)that any other person exercising functions in relation to the health service or providing services for its purposes is free to exercise those functions or provide those services in the manner that it considers most appropriate, and
(b)that unnecessary burdens are not imposed on any such person.
(2)If, in the case of any exercise of functions, the Secretary of State considers that there is a conflict between the matters mentioned in subsection (1) and the discharge by the Secretary of State of the duties under section 1, the Secretary of State must give priority to the duties under that section.]
Textual Amendments
F1S. 1D inserted (1.4.2013) by Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c. 7), ss. 5, 306(4); S.I. 2013/160, art. 2(2) (with arts. 7-9)
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