The National Health Service Functions (Directions to Authorities and Administration Arrangements) Regulations 1989

Regulation 3

SCHEDULE 1 ENACTMENTS CONFERRING FUNCTIONS EXERCISABLE BY REGIONAL AND DISTRICT HEALTH AUTHORITIES

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Enactment	Subject Matter
Health Services and Public Health Act 1968 –
section 63(1), (3), (5) and (6)	Providing for instruction of officers of health authorities and other persons employed or contemplating employment by health authorities or in authorities connected with health or welfare.
section 64(1)	Giving financial assistance to voluntary organisations.
Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970(2) –
section 17	Provisions with respect to persons under 65.
The 1977 Act –
section 2	Providing services considered appropriate for discharging duties imposed on the Secretary of State and doing other things calculated to facilitate the discharge of any such duty.
section 3(1)(a) and (b)	Providing hospital and other accommodation.
section 3(1)(c)	Providing medical, dental, nursing and ambulance services.
section 3(1)(d)	Providing facilities for the care of expectant and nursing mothers and young children.
section 3(1)(e)	Providing facilities for the prevention of illness, the care of persons suffering from illness and the aftercare of persons who have suffered from illness.
section 3(1)(f)	Providing other services required for the diagnosis and treatment of illness.
section 5(1)(a), (1A) and paragraph 1 of Schedule 1(3)	Providing for the medical inspection and treatment of pupils, their dental inspection and treatment and their education in dental health.
section 5(1)(b)	Arranging for the giving of advice on contraception, for the medical examination of persons seeking such advice, for the treatment of such persons and for the supply of contraceptive substances and appliances.
section 5(2)(d)	Conducting or assisting, by grants or otherwise, persons to conduct research into matters relating to illness or other matters connected with a service provided under the Act.
section 19(1), (2) and (3); and paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 of Schedule 6(4)	Recognising regional and district advisory committees.
section 23(1)	Arranging with any person or body (including a voluntary organisation) for that person or body to provide or assist in providing any service under the Act.
section 23(2)	Making available to certain persons or bodies (including voluntary organisations) facilities and services of persons employed in connection with such facilities.
section 23(3)	Agreeing terms and making payments in respect of facilities or services provided under section 23 of the Act.
section 25 other than paragraphs (b) and (c)	Making available supplies of human blood.
section 26(1)	Supplying goods, services and other facilities to local authorities and other public bodies and carrying out maintenance work in connection with any land or building the maintenance of which is a local authority responsibility.
section 26(2)	Supplying prescribed goods, materials or other facilities to persons providing general medical services, general dental services, general ophthalmic services or pharmaceutical services.
section 26(3)	Making available to local authorities any services or other facilities and the services of employed persons to enable local authorities to discharge their functions relating to social services, education and public health.
section 26(4)(5)	Making available to local authorities the services of contractors to enable such authorities to discharge their functions relating to social services, education and public health.
section 27(1) and (2)	Providing for consultation before the services of any officer of a health authority are made available to a local authority.
section 27(4)	Agreeing terms and charging for services and facilities provided.
section 51	Making available facilities for university clinical teaching and research.
section 52	Making accommodation available.
section 63(6)	Authorising use of hospital accommodation, determining the extent to which it is to be made available and determining and recovering charges in respect of the use of such accommodation.
section 65(1) and (2)(7)	Allowing use of accommodation and services authorised by the Secretary of State, to be made available, in connection with the treatment, in pursuance of arrangements made by medical or dental practitioners, of their private patients and determining the charges to be paid for that accommodation and services and recovering those charges.
section 72(1), (3), (4) and (5)	Making available health service accommodation or facilities for the purpose of providing medical, dental, pharmaceutical, ophthalmic or chiropody services to non-resident private patients.
section 81(a)	Charging and recovering the charges for more expensive supplies.
section 82(a)	Charging for replacement or repair of appliances and vehicles in certain circumstances.
section 83A(1)(b)(8)	Paying travelling expenses.
section 87(1) and (2)	Acquiring land or other property required for the purposes of the Act and the use or maintenance of any property belonging to the Secretary of State by virtue of the Act.
section 121(9)	Determining charges for prescribed services provided in respect of prescribed non residents.
Mental Health Act 1983(10) –
section 12(2)	Approving medical practitioners as having special experience in the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorder.
Registered Homes Act 1984(11) –
section 23(3), (4) and (5)	Registration of nursing homes and mental nursing homes.
section 25	Refusal of registration.
section 26	Conduct of homes.
section 27	Supplementary.
section 28	Cancellation of registration.
section 29(1), (2) and (3)	Additional registration conditions.
section 30	Urgent procedure for cancellation of registration.
section 31	Ordinary procedure for registration, cancellation, variation of conditions and additional conditions.
section 32	Representations.
section 33(1) and (2)	Decisions.
section 34(2) and (7)	Appeals.
section 35(1), (3) and (4)	Authorisation of persons to inspect mental nursing homes.
section 37	Exemption of Christian Science homes.
section 53(1)	Criminal proceedings.

(1)

1968 c. 46; the relevant parts of section 64 were amended by the National Health Service Act 1977 (c. 49), Schedule 15, paragraph 46 and S.I.1985/39, article 6(2).

(2)

1970 c. 44, amended by National Health Service Reorganisation Act 1973 (c. 32), Schedule 4, paragraph 132;see also the National Health Service Act 1977 (c. 49), Schedule 14, paragraph 13(1)(b).

(3)

Section 5 and Schedule 1 were amended by the Health and Medicines Act 1988 (c. 49), section 10 and Schedule 2 respectively.

(4)

Section 19 was amended by the Health Services Act 1980 (c. 53), Schedule 1, paragraph 39 and is amended prospectively by the Health and Social Security Act 1984 (c. 48), Schedule 8. Schedule 6 was amended by the Health Services Act 1980, Schedule 1, paragraph 81.

(5)

Section 26(4) was added by the Health Services Act 1980 (c. 53), section 3(1).

(6)

Section 63(1) was amended by section 7(9) of the Health and Medicines Act 1988 (c. 49), Schedule 3 to which repealed section 63(2).

(7)

Section 65 was substituted by the Health and Medicines Act 1988 (c. 49), section 7(10).

(8)

Section 83A(1)(b) was inserted by section 14(1) of the Social Security Act 1988 (c. 7), Schedule 5 to which repealed the earlier provision for travelling expenses made by section 5(3) of the National Health Service Act 1977 (c. 49).

(9)

Section 121 was amended by the Health and Medicines Act 1988 (c. 49), section 7(12).

(10)

1983 c. 20.

(11)

1984 c. 23.