2005 No. 1100
NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES

The National Health Service (Standing Advisory Committees) Amendment Order 2005

Made
Laid before Parliament
Coming into force
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 19771 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:—

Citation, commencement and interpretation1.

(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 19812.

Abolition of certain Standing Advisory Committees2.

The Standing Medical Advisory Committee, the Standing Pharmaceutical Advisory Committee and the Standing Nursing and Midwifery Advisory Committee are abolished.

Amendment of the 1981 Order3.

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
(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.