The General Ophthalmic Services Contracts Regulations 2008

Statutory Instruments

2008 No. 1185

National Health Service, England

The General Ophthalmic Services Contracts Regulations 2008

Made

28th April 2008

Laid before Parliament

6th May 2008

Coming into force

1st August 2008

The Secretary of State for Health makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 28WB, 28WC, 28WE, 28WF and 126(4) of the National Health Service Act 1977(1) and section 9(8) of the National Health Service Act 2006(2).

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1977 c.49 (“the 1977 Act”); see section 128(1) as amended by the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c.19) (“the 1990 Act”), section 26(2)(g) and (i), for the definitions of “prescribed” and “regulations”. Sections 28WB, 28WC and 28WF were inserted by the Health Act 2006 (c.28) (“the 2006 Act”), section 38. Section 126(4) was amended by the 1990 Act, s. 65(2); by the Health Act 1999 (c.8), Schedule 4, paragraph 37(6), by the Health and Social Care Act 2001 (c.15) (“the 2001 Act”), Schedule 5, paragraph 5(13)(b) and by the 2006 Act, section 80 and Schedule 8, paragraph 23. As regards Wales, the functions of the Secretary of State under sections 29 and 126(4) of the 1977 Act are transferred to Welsh Ministers under section 58 of, and Schedule 1 to, the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32); these Regulations therefore extend only to England.