2001 No. 747
NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND
The National Health Service (Functions of Health Authorities and Administration Arrangements) (England) Regulations 2001
Made 8th March 2001
Laid before Parliament 9th March 2001
Coming into force 1st April 2001

The Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 63(5A) of the Health Services and Public Health Act 1968, and sections 16, 16D, 17, 18, 51(2), and 126(3) and (4) of the National Health Service Act 1977, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:
1968 c. 46. Section 63 was amended by the National Health Service Re-organisation Act 1973 (c. 32), Schedule 4, paragraph 124, and Schedule 5, the National Health Service Act 1977 (c. 49) (“the 1977 Act”), Schedule 15, paragraph 45, the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 (c. 29), Schedule 16, paragraph 26(2), the Health Services Act 1980 (c. 53) (“the 1980 Act”), Schedule 1, paragraph 19(3), the Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51), Schedule 17, S.I. 1985/89, article 6(1), the Health and Medicines Act 1988 (c. 49) (“the 1988 Act”), section 20 and Schedule 3, the Health Authorities Act 1995 (c. 17) (“the 1995 Act”), Schedule 1, paragraph 95 (which also added subsection (5A)), the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997 (c. 46) (“the 1997 Act”), Schedule 2, paragraph 1(4), and the Health Act 1999 (c. 8) (“the 1999 Act”), Schedule 4, paragraph 3.
1977 c. 49. Section 16 was substituted by the 1999 Act, Schedule 4, paragraph 9; sections 16D and 17 were substituted by the 1999 Act, section 12(1); section 18 was amended by the 1980 Act, Schedule 1, paragraphs 38 and 92, S.I. 1985/89, article 7, the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19) (“the 1990 Act”), Schedule 10, the 1995 Act, section 3(8) and Schedule 1, paragraph 9, and the 1999 Act, section 12(3) and (4); section 51 was amended by the 1995 Act, Schedule 1, paragraph 35 (which also added subsection (2)), and by the 1999 Act, Schedule 4, paragraph 23; section 126 was amended by the 1990 Act, section 65(2), the 1995 Act, Schedule 1, paragraph 57, and the 1999 Act, Schedule 4, paragraph 37; see section 128(1), as amended by section 26(2)(i) and (g) of the 1990 Act, for the definitions of “prescribed” and “regulations”. The functions of the Secretary of State under those provisions and section 63(5A) of the Health Services and Public Health Act 1968 (“the 1968 Act”) are, so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by article 2(a) of, and the entry for the 1968 and 1977 Acts in Schedule 1 to, the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999, S.I. 1999/672, as amended by section 66(5) of the 1999 Act.