Welsh Statutory Instruments

2003 No. 975 (W.134)

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, WALES

The National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2003

Made

1st April 2003

Coming into force —

except for regulation 12

6th April 2003

regulation 12

7th April 2003

The National Assembly for Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred upon it by sections 83A, 126(4) and 128(1) of the National Health Service Act 1977(1) hereby makes the following Regulations:

(1)

1977 c. 49 (“the 1977 Act”); section 83A was inserted by section 14(1) of the Social Security Act 1988 (c. 7) and amended by paragraph 6 of Schedule 2 to the Health and Medicines Act 1988 (c. 49), by paragraph 18(5) of Schedule 9 to the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19) (“the 1990 Act”) and by paragraph 40 of Schedule 1 to the Health Authorities Act 1995 (c. 17).

Section 126(4) was amended by section 65(2) of the 1990 Act and by Schedule 4, paragraph 37(6) to the Health Act 1999 (c. 8).

See section 128(1), as amended by section 26(2)(g) and (i) of the 1990 Act, for the definitions of “prescribed” and “regulations”.

The functions of the Secretary of State under sections 83A, 126(4) and 128(1) of the 1977 Act were transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999, S.I.1999/672, article 2 and Schedule 1, as amended by the 1999 Act, section 66(5).