The National Health Service Functions (Directions to Authorities and Administration Arrangements) Amendment Regulations 1994

Statutory Instruments

1994 No. 590

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES

The National Health Service Functions (Directions to Authorities and Administration Arrangements) Amendment Regulations 1994

Made

11th March 1994

Laid before Parliament

11th March 1994

Coming into force

1st April 1994

The Secretary of State for Health, as respects England, and the Secretary of State for Wales, as respects Wales, in exercise of powers conferred by sections 13, 14(2), 17(1), 18(1) and 126(4) and (5) of the National Health Service Act 1977(1) and of all other powers enabling them to do so hereby make the following Regulations:—

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service Functions (Directions to Authorities and Administration Arrangements) Amendment Regulations 1994 and shall come into force on 1st April 1994.

Amendment of Regulations

2.  The National Health Service Functions (Directions to Authorities and Administration Arrangements) Regulations 1991(2) are amended as follows:—

(a) in regulation 2(1), in the definition of “the specified health service functions”, there is added at the end “, and for the purposes of regulations 7 and 8 includes functions under section 25 of the Act (making available supplies of human blood) other than under paragraphs (b) and (c) of that section”;

(b) in regulation 5—

(i) in paragraph (2) sub-paragraph (b) is omitted, and

(ii) in paragraph (3) the words “or of the function of determining charges for the supply of human blood under section 25 of the Act” are omitted; and

(c) in the Schedule the entry in column 1 “section 25 other than paragraphs (b) and (c)” and the entry in column 2 which relates to it are omitted.

Revocation

3.  In regulation 2 of the National Health Service Functions (Administration Arrangements and Amendment of Directions) Regulations 1992(3) paragraph (b) is revoked so far as it relates to the insertion of the words omitted by regulation 2(b)(ii) of these Regulations.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health

Tom Sackville

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,

Department of Health

8th March 1994

John Redwood

Secretary of State for Wales

11th March 1994

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the National Health Service Functions (Directions to Authorities and Administration Arrangements) Regulations 1991. They remove from the list of the Secretary of State’s health service functions which are exercisable by Regional Health Authorities in England her functions under section 25(a) of the National Health Service Act 1977 (which relates to the supply of human blood) and make consequential amendments.

(1)

1977 c. 49. Section 13 was amended by the Health Services Act 1980 (c. 53) (“the 1980 Act”), Schedule 1, paragraph 33, and by the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19) (“the 1990 Act”), Schedule 10. Section 14(2) was amended by the 1980 Act, Schedule 1, paragraph 34, and by the 1990 Act, Schedule 10. Section 17 was substituted by the Health and Social Security Act 1984, Schedule 3, paragraph 2, and amended by the 1990 Act, sections 3(4) and 12(2). Section 18 was amended by the 1980 Act, Schedule 1, paragraph 38 and by the 1990 Act, section 2(1) and Schedule10, and was modified by S.I. 1985/39, Article 7(2). Section 126(4) was amended by, and section 126(5) was inserted by, the 1990 Act, section 65(2).

(2)

S.I. 1991/554, amended by S.I. 1992/659.

(3)

S.I. 1992/659.