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Explanatory Memorandum to Health and Personal Social Services (Quality, Improvement and Regulation) (Northern Ireland) Order 2003

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The provisions within this order bring into effect arrangements which are equivalent to those already in place in Scotland and in England & Wales. The relevant pieces of equivalent legislation for the regulation of services are:

  • the Care Standards Act 2000 (c.14); and

  • the Regulation of Care (Scotland) Act 2001 (asp 8).

  • The relevant equivalent piece of legislation for the duty of quality and the inspection of the quality of services delivered by the NHS in England & Wales and in Scotland is:

  • the Health Act 1999 (c.8) as amended by the NHS Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 (c.17).

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