This Statutory Instrument has been made, in part, as a consequence of defects in SI 2013/349 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.
Statutory Instruments
2014 No. 417
National Health Service, England
The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical and Local Pharmaceutical Services) (Amendment and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2014
Made
25th February 2014
Laid before Parliament
4th March 2014
Coming into force
1st April 2014
The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 126, 129 and 272(7) and (8) of, and paragraph 3(3)(h) of Schedule 12 to, the National Health Service Act 2006(1).
2006 c.41. Section 126 of the National Health Service Act 2006 (“the 2006 Act”) has been amended by the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c. 7) (“the 2012 Act”), sections 213(7)(k) and 220(7), and Schedule 4, paragraph 63. Section 129 of the 2006 Act has been amended by the Health Act 2009 (c. 21), sections 26 and 27 and Schedule 6, by the 2012 Act, section 207(1) to (9) and Schedule 4, paragraph 66, by the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 (c. 9), Schedule 9, paragraph 121, and by S.I. 2010/231. Paragraph 3 of Schedule 12 to the 2006 Act has been amended by the Health Act 2009, section 29(14) and (15), and by the 2012 Act, Schedule 4, paragraph 93(4). By virtue of section 271(1) of the 2006 Act, the functions of the Secretary of State being exercised in the making of these Regulations are exercisable only in relation to England. See also section 275(1) of the 2006 Act, which contains definitions of “prescribed” and “regulations” that are relevant to the powers being exercised.