The National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 (Commencement No. 1) Order 2002

Supplementary Provision

4.  In section 63 of the Health Services and Public Health Act 1968 (provision of instruction for officers of hospital authorities and other persons employed, or contemplating employment, in certain activities connected with health or welfare)(1)—

(a) in subsection (5A)—

(i) after “exercisable by a” there is inserted “Strategic Health Authority,”;

(ii) after “exercisable by the” there is inserted “Strategic Health Authority,”;

(b) in subsection (5B), before paragraph (a) there is inserted—

“(za) Strategic Health Authorities;”.

(1)

1968 c. 46; subsections (5A) and (5B) were inserted by the Health Authorities Act 1995 (c. 17), section 2(1), Schedule 1, paragraph 95(2)(c) and amended by the 1999 Act, section 65, Schedule 4, paragraphs 3(b) and (c) and by the National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 (c. 17), section 6(2), Schedule 5, paragraphs 2(3) and 2(4) (not yet in force). Section 63 extends to England, Wales and Scotland and this amendment is of similar extent although, since it relates to England only bodies, it has application only in relation to England.