The National Health Service (Standing Advisory Committees) Amendment Order 2010

Statutory Instruments

2010 No. 635

National Health Service, England And Wales

The National Health Service (Standing Advisory Committees) Amendment Order 2010

Made

7th March 2010

Laid before Parliament

10th March 2010

Coming into force

1st April 2010

The Secretary of State for Health makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 250(1), 272(7) and 273(1) of the National Health Service Act 2006(1) and sections 189(1), 203(9) and 204(1) of the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006(2).

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the National Health Service (Standing Advisory Committees) Amendment Order 2010 and shall come into force 1st April 2010.

Abolition of the Standing Dental Advisory Committee

2.  The Standing Dental Advisory Committee is abolished.

Amendment of the National Health Service (Standing Advisory Committees) Order 1981

3.  In the National Health Service (Standing Advisory Committees) 1981 Order(3), in Part I of the Schedule, omit the entry for the Standing Dental Advisory Committee in column (1), and the corresponding entry in column (2).

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health

Ann Keen

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,

Department of Health

7th March 2010

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order abolishes the Standing Dental Advisory Committee (article 2) on 1st April 2010. Article 3 of this Order amends the National Health Service (Standing Advisory Committees) Order 1981, which made provision for the continuing constitution of the committee.

A full regulatory impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no impact on the private or voluntary sectors is foreseen.

(1)

2006 c.41.

(2)

2006 c.42. The powers under this Act and the National Health Service Act 2006 exercised in this Order are exercisable by the Secretary of State in relation to the Standing Dental Advisory Committee concurrently with the Welsh Ministers, by virtue of article 2(c) of the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I 1999/672) as continued in effect by paragraph 8 of Schedule 2 to the National Health Service (Consequential Provisions) Act 2006 (c.43) and paragraph 26 of Schedule 11 to the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c.32). See section 158(1) of the Government of Wales Act 2006 for the definition of “cross-border body”.

(3)

S.I. 1981/597, amended by S.I. 2005/1100.