The National Health Service (Choice of Medical Practitioner) Amendment Regulations 1999

Statutory Instruments

1999 No. 3179

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND

The National Health Service (Choice of Medical Practitioner) Amendment Regulations 1999

Made

27th November 1999

Laid before Parliament

29th November 1999

Coming into force

21st December 1999

The Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 28F(1) and (2) 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 28F was inserted by the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997 (c. 46), section 23(1). Section 126(4) was amended by the 1990 Act, section 65(2); and by the Health Act 1999 (c. 8), Schedule 4, paragraph 37(6). As regards Wales, the functions of the Secretary of State under sections 28F and 126(4) of the 1977 Act are transferred to the National Assembly for Wales under article 2 of, and Schedule 1 to, the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999, S.I. 1999/672; these Regulations therefore extend only to England.