The National Health Service Litigation Authority (Amendment) Regulations 1996

This Statutory Instrument has been made in consequence of a defect in S.I. 1995/2801 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.

Statutory Instruments

1996 No. 968

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES

The National Health Service Litigation Authority (Amendment) Regulations 1996

Made

28th March 1996

Laid before Parliament

29th March 1996

Coming into force

19th April 1996

The Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of powers conferred by section 126(4) of, and paragraph 12 of Schedule 5 to, the National Health Service Act 1977(1) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service Litigation Authority (Amendment) Regulations 1996 and shall come into force on 19th April 1996.

Amendment of Regulations

2.  In paragraph 5(1) of the Schedule to the National Health Service Litigation Authority Regulations 1995(2) (rules as to meetings and proceedings of the Authority—quorum) for the words from “three” to the end of the sub-paragraph there shall be substituted the words “two non-officer members, or the chairman and one non-officer member, are present.”.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health

Gerald Malone

Minister of Health,

Department of Health

28th March 1996

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the National Health Service Litigation Authority Regulations 1996 which provide for the membership and procedure of the National Health Service Litigation Authority (a special health authority established under the National Health Service Act 1977), to correct the provision in those Regulations governing the number of members who must be present before business may be transacted at meetings of the Authority.

(1)

1977 c. 49. Section 126(4) was amended by section 65(2) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19) (“the 1990 Act”); paragraph 12 of Schedule 5 was amended by paragraph 9 of Schedule 1 to the 1990 Act. See section 128(1), as amended by section 26(2)(g) and (i) of the 1990 Act, for the definitions of “prescribed” and “regulations”.

(2)

S.I. 1995/2801.