The National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 (Supplementary, Consequential etc. Provisions) Regulations 2002

Public Health (Infectious Diseases) Regulations 1988

46.—(1) The Public Health (Infectious Diseases) Regulations 1988(1) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 2(1) (interpretation)—

(a) for the definition of “appropriate District Health Authority” there is substituted—

• ““appropriate health authority” means—

  (a)

  in Wales, the Health Authority within which a district of a local authority or a port health district is wholly or partly situated; and

  (b)

  in England, the Primary Care Trust—

  (i)

  any part of whose area falls within that of the local authority or port health district of the proper officer; and

  (ii)

  which appears to the proper officer to be the relevant Primary Care Trust.”;

(b) the definition of “District Health Authority” is omitted; and

(c) there is inserted, in the appropriate alphabetical position—

““Health Authority” means a Health Authority established under section 8 of the National Health Service Act 1977;

“Primary Care Trust” means a Primary Care Trust established under section 16A of the National Health Service Act 1977;”.

(3) In regulations 6 and 8, for “District Health Authority”, in each place where it occurs, there is substituted “health authority”.

(1)

S.I. 1988/1546. Regulation 2(1) is further amended in Schedule 11.