Scottish Statutory Instruments
2005 No.122
NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE
The Dissolution of Local Health Councils (Scotland) Order 2005
Made
1st March 2005
Laid before the Scottish Parliament
3rd March 2005
Coming into force
1st April 2005
The Scottish Ministers in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 8 of the National Health Service Reform (Scotland) Act 2004(1), hereby make the following Order:
Citation and commencement
1. This Order may be cited as the Dissolution of Local Health Councils (Scotland) Order 2005 and shall come into force on 1st April 2005.
Dissolution of Local Health Councils
2. The date specified for the purposes of section 8(1) of the National Health Service Reform (Scotland) Act 2004 (the date on which local health councils established by virtue of section 7 of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978(2) are dissolved) is 1st April 2005.
ANDREW P KERR
A member of the Scottish Executive
St Andrew’s House, Edinburgh
1st March 2005
Explanatory Note
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order specifies 1st April as the date on which all local health councils established by virtue of section 7 of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 (c. 29) are dissolved.