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Statutory Instruments
NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES
Made
4th April 2005
Laid before Parliament
7th April 2005
Coming into force
2nd May 2005
The Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 6(3) and 126(3) and (4) of the National Health Service Act 1977(1) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:—
1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the National Health Service (Standing Advisory Committees) Amendment Order 2005 and shall come into force on 2nd May 2005.
(2) In this Order, “the 1981 Order” means the National Health Service (Standing Advisory Committees) Order 1981(2).
2. The Standing Medical Advisory Committee, the Standing Pharmaceutical Advisory Committee and the Standing Nursing and Midwifery Advisory Committee are abolished.
3. In the 1981 Order, in Part I of the Schedule, the entries for the Standing Medical Advisory Committee, the Standing Pharmaceutical Advisory Committee and the Standing Nursing and Midwifery Advisory Committee in column (1), and the corresponding entries in column (2), shall be omitted.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health
John Hutton
Minister of State,
Department of Health
4th April 2005
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order abolishes, on 2nd May 2005, the Standing Medical Advisory Committee, the Standing Pharmaceutical Advisory Committee and the Standing Nursing and Midwifery Advisory Committee (article 2). Provision was made for their continuing constitution by the National Health Service (Standing Advisory Committees) Order 1981 (“the 1981 Order”). Article 3 amends the 1981 Order by omitting the references to those Committees from the Schedule to that Order.
1977 c. 49; section 6(3) was amended by sections 8(3) and 25(4) of, and Schedule 7 to, the Health Services Act 1980 (c. 53). 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, and Schedule 1 to, the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999, S.I. 1999/672 (“the Transfer of Function Order”); see the entry in Schedule 1 for the National Health Service Act 1977 as amended by section 66(4) and (5)(a) of the Health Act 1999 (c. 8), section 67(1) of, and paragraph 12(1) and (3) of Schedule 5 to, the Health and Social Care Act 2001 (c. 15) and section 196 of, and Part IV of Schedule 14 to, the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (c. 43). This Order is made by the Secretary of State in exercise of concurrent powers with the National Assembly for Wales. See article 2(c) of the Transfer of Functions Order.
S.I.1981/597. There are no amending instruments.
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