Statutory Instruments
NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND
Made
9th March 2000
Laid before Parliament
9th March 2000
Coming into force
1st April 2000
The Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 17 and 126(4) of, and paragraphs 2 and 3(d) of Schedule 7 to, the National Health Service Act 1977(1) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:
1977 c. 49; section 17 was substituted by the Health Act 1999 (c. 8) (“the 1999 Act”), section 12; section 126(4) was amended by the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19) (“the 1990 Act”), section 65(2) and by the 1999 Act. Schedule 4, paragraph 37(6); paragraph 2 of Schedule 7 was amended by the Health and Social Security Act 1984 (c. 48), Schedule 3, paragraph 15, by the 1990 Act, Schedule 9, paragraph 17(3), by the Health Authorities Act 1995 (c. 17) (“the 1995 Act”), Schedule 1, paragraph 62(a), and by the 1999 Act, Schedule 4, paragraph 40; paragraph 3(d) of Schedule 7 was amended by the 1995 Act, Schedule 1, paragraph 62(b); see section 128(1), as amended by the 1990 Act, section 26(2)(g) and (i), for the definitions of “prescribed” and “regulations”. The functions of the Secretary of State under these provisions are, so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by article 2(a) of the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999, S.I. 1999/672, as amended by section 66(5) of the 1999 Act.