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1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Local Authority (Overview and Scrutiny Committees Health Scrutiny Functions) Regulations 2002 and shall come into force on 1st January 2003.
(2) These Regulations apply in England only.
(3) In these Regulations—
“the Act” means the Health and Social Care Act 2001;
“the 2000 Act” means the Local Government Act 2000(1);
“the 2002 Act” means the National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002;
“joint overview and scrutiny committee” means a committee appointed under regulation 7(1);
“local authority” means—
in relation to regulations 2 to 6, a local authority to which section 7 of the Act applies and the Common Council for the City of London(2); and
in relation to regulations 7 to 10, a local authority to which section 8 of the Act applies and the Common Council for the City of London;
“local NHS body” means, in relation to an overview and scrutiny committee, a Strategic Health Authority, Primary Care Trust or NHS trust which provides, or arranges for the provision of, or performs any management function in relation to, services to persons residing within the area of the committee’s local authority or, in the case of a joint overview and scrutiny committee, the areas of the authorities which have appointed that joint committee.
(4) In regulations 2 to 6 references to an overview and scrutiny committee include references to a joint overview and scrutiny committee.
See section 10 of the Act.
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