The National Health Service (General Medical Services) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1997

Statutory Instruments

1997 No. 981

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES

The National Health Service (General Medical Services) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1997

Made

20th March 1997

Laid before Parliament

20th March 1997

Coming into force

1st July 1997

The Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of powers conferred on him by sections 29 and 126(4) of the National Health Service Act 1977(1) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:—

(1)

1977 c. 49; see section 128(1) as amended by the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19) (“the 1990 Act”), section 26(2)(g) and (i), for the definitions of “prescribed”and “regulations”. Section 29 was extended by the Health and Medicines Act 1988 (c. 49), section 17; and amended by the Health Services Act 1980 (c. 53), sections 1 and 7 and Schedule 1, paragraph 42(b); by the Health and Social Services and Social Security Adjudications Act 1983 (c. 41), Schedule 6, paragraph 2; by the Medical Act 1983 (c. 54), section 56(1) and Schedule 5, paragraph 16(a); by S.I. 1985/39, article 7(3); and by the Health Authorities Act 1995 (c. 17), Schedule 1, paragraph 18. Section 126(4) was amended by the 1990 Act, section 65(2).