The National Health Service (Charges for Drugs and Appliances) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2006

Welsh Statutory Instruments

2006 No. 943 (W.92)

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, WALES

The National Health Service (Charges for Drugs and Appliances) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2006

Made

28 March 2006

Coming into force

1 April 2006

The National Assembly for Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 77, 83, 83A and 126(4) of the National Health Service Act 1977(1) hereby makes the following Regulations:

(1)

1977 c. 49; 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”. Section 83 was amended by the Health Authorities Act 1995 (c. 17) (“the 1995 Act”), section 1 and Schedule 1, paragraph 39 and by S.I. 2000/90, article 3(1) and Schedule 1, paragraph 13(1) and (4). Section 83A was inserted by the Social Security Act 1988 (c. 7) (“the 1988 Act”), section 14(1); and was amended by the 1990 Act, section 66(1) and Schedule 9, paragraph 18(5)(a) and (b); by the Health and Medicines Act 1988 (c. 49), section 25 and Schedule 2, paragraph 6; by S.I.1998/2385, article 2 and by the 1995 Act, section 2(1) and Schedule 1, paragraph 40. Section 126(4) was amended by the 1990 Act, section 65(2) and the Health Act 1999 (c. 8) (“the 1999 Act”), Schedule 4, paragraph 37(6). Paragraph 1 of Schedule 12 was amended by the Health Services Act 1980 (c. 53), section 25(2) and Schedule 5, paragraph 1; by 1988 Act, section 16 and Schedule 5; by the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997 (c. 46), section 41(10) and Schedule 2, paragraph 31 and by the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (c. 43), section 184 and Schedule 11, paragraphs 7 and 44. The functions of the Secretary of State under sections 77, 83, 83A and 126(4) of and paragraph 1 of Schedule 12 to the National Health Service Act 1977 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(4), the Health and Social Care Act 2001 (c. 15), section 68(1), the National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 (c. 17), section 40(1) and the 2003 Act, section 197(1).