Statutory Instruments
NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND
Made
14th September 2003
Laid before Parliament
15th September 2003
Coming into force
6th October 2003
The Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 37(1C), 83A and 126(4) of the National Health Service Act 1977 M1 and of all powers enabling him in that behalf hereby makes the following Regulations:
Marginal Citations
M11977 c. 49. Section 83A was inserted by section 14(1) of the Social Security Act 1988 (c. 7) and amended by section 25 of, and paragraph 6 of Schedule 2 to, the Health and Medicines Act 1988 (c. 49), section 41(10) of, and paragraph 19 of Schedule 2 to, the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997 (c. 46), article 2 of S.I.1998/2385, article 3(1) of, and paragraph 13 of Schedule 1 to, S.I.2000/90, section 66(1) of, and paragraph 18(5) of Schedule 9 to, the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19) (“the 1990 Act”), section 2(1) of, and paragraph 40 of Schedule 1 to, the Health Authorities Act 1995 (c. 17) and section 2(5) of, and paragraphs 1 and 32 of Part 1 of Schedule 2 to, the National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 (c. 17). Section 126(4) was amended by section 65(2) of the 1990 Act and by paragraph 37(6) of the Health Act 1999 (c. 8).See section 28(1), as amended by section 26(2)(g) and (i) of the 1990 Act, 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.