The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical and Local Pharmaceutical Services) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2024

Statutory Instruments

2024 No. 894

National Health Service, England

The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical and Local Pharmaceutical Services) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2024

Made

2nd September 2024

Laid before Parliament

3rd September 2024

Coming into force in accordance with regulation 1(2) and (3)

The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 126(2), 129(1)(a), (2)(b), (2C) and (6), 164(8A)(a), (8B)(b) and (8D) and 272(7) and (8) of, and paragraph 3(1) and (3)(c) and (d) of Schedule 12 to, the National Health Service Act 2006(1).

(1)

2006 c. 41. Section 126 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; the Children and Social Work Act 2017 (c. 16), Schedule 5, paragraphs 30 and 47; and the Health and Care Act 2022 (c. 31) (“the 2022 Act”), Schedule 1, paragraph 1. Section 129(1)(a) has been amended by the 2022 Act, Schedule 1, paragraph 1. Section 129(2)(b) has been amended by the 2022 Act, Schedule 1, paragraph 1. Section 129(2C) was inserted by the Health Act 2009 (c. 21) (“the 2009 Act”), section 26(3), and amended by the 2012 Act, section 207(6), and the 2022 Act, Schedule 1, paragraph 1. Section 129(6) has been amended by: the 2009 Act, section 26(7) and 27, and Schedule 6; the 2012 Act, section 207(8)(a) to (c), and Schedule 4, paragraph 66; the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 (c. 9), Schedule 9, paragraphs 120 and 121; the 2022 Act, Schedule 1, paragraph 1; and S.I. 2010/231. In section 164, subsections (8A) to (8E) were inserted by the Health Service Medical Supplies (Costs) Act 2017 (c. 23), section 1, and subsections (8A) and (8D) were thereafter amended by the 2022 Act, section 161(1)(a) to (c). Paragraph 3 of Schedule 12 has been amended by: the 2009 Act, section 29(13) to (15); the 2012 Act, Schedule 4, paragraph 93(4); the Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22), Schedule 9, paragraph 52(1)(b) and (2); and the 2022 Act, Schedule 1, paragraph 1. See section 275(1) of the National Health Service Act 2006 for the meanings given to “prescribed” and “regulations” which are relevant to the powers being exercised.