Statutory Instruments

2003 No. 761

SOCIAL SERVICES, ENGLAND

The Health and Social Care Act 2001 (Isles of Scilly) (No. 2) Order 2003

Made

17th March 2003

Laid before Parliament

18th March 2003

Coming into force

8th April 2003

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Health and Social Care Act 2001 (Isles of Scilly) (No. 2) Order 2003 and shall come into force on 8th April 2003.

Application of the Health and Social Care Act 2001 to the Isles of Scilly

2.—(1) The provisions of the Health and Social Care Act 2001 specified in paragraph (2) shall extend to the Isles of Scilly with the modification that, in the application of those provisions to those Isles, any reference to a local authority is to be construed as a reference to the Council of the Isles of Scilly.

(2) The provisions referred to in paragraph (1) are—

(a)the provisions of Part 4 except sections 50 to 53;

(b)Schedule 5, Part 2, and, in so far as it relates to that Part, section 67(1); and

(c)Schedule 6, Part 3, and, in so far as it relates to that Part, section 67(2).

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

Jacqui Smith

Minister of State,

Department of Health

17th March 2003

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order extends to the Isles of Scilly those provisions of the Health and Social Care Act 2001 which are concerned with social care, except sections 50 to 53 which have no application in the Isles. The reference to a local authority in those provisions is by virtue of this Order to be construed as a reference to the Council of the Isles of Scilly.