The Health and Social Services Trusts (Exercise of Functions) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

1996 No. 439

HEALTH AND PERSONAL SOCIAL SERVICES

The Health and Social Services Trusts (Exercise of Functions) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996

Made

20th September 1996

Coming into operation

4th November 1996

The Department of Health and Social Services, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Article 3(2) of the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1994(1), and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Health and Social Services Trusts (Exercise of Functions) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996 and shall come into operation on 4th November 1996.

Amendment of the Health and Social Services Trusts (Exercise of Functions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1994

2.  The Schedule to the Health and Social Services Trusts (Exercise of Functions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1994(2) shall be amended as follows—

(a) in the first column (Statutory Provision) there shall be added at the end the words “Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995(3)”; and

(b) in the second column (Relevant functions of a Health and Social Services Board) there shall be added at the end, opposite the reference to the Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995, the words “All functions.”.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health and Social Services on 20th September 1996.

L.S.

John McGrath

Assistant Secretary

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)

These Regulations amend the Health and Social Services Trusts (Exercise of Functions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1994 (“the principal regulations”) to take account of the introduction of most of the provisions of the Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995.

The Regulations extend the list of relevant functions of a Health and Social Services Board, which are prescribed in the principal regulations, to include all functions conferred on a Health and Social Services Board under the Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995.

(1)

S.I. 1994/429 (N.I. 2)

(2)

S.R. 1994 No. 64

(3)

S.I. 1995/755 (N.I. 2)