The NHS Quality Improvement Scotland (Dissolution) Order 2011

Scottish Statutory Instruments

2011 No. 36

National Health Service

The NHS Quality Improvement Scotland (Dissolution) Order 2011

Made

20th January 2011

Coming into force

1st April 2011

The Scottish Ministers make the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 2(1)(b) and 105(6) and (7) of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978(1) and all other powers enabling them to do so.

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the NHS Quality Improvement Scotland (Dissolution) Order 2011 and comes into force on 1st April 2011.

Dissolution of NHS Quality Improvement Scotland and consequent revocations

2.—(1) NHS Quality Improvement Scotland(2) is dissolved.

(2) The enactments in the Schedule to this Order are revoked.

SHONA ROBISON

Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

20th January 2011

Article 2(2)

SCHEDULE REVOCATIONS

1.  The NHS Quality Improvement Scotland Order 2002(3).

2.  The NHS Quality Improvement Scotland (Transfer of Officers) Regulations 2002(4).

3.  The NHS Quality Improvement Scotland (Amendment) Order 2005(5).

4.  The NHS Quality Improvement Scotland (Establishment of the Scottish Health Council) Regulations 2005(6).

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order dissolves the Special Health Board known as NHS Quality Improvement Scotland and revokes the enactments relating to its constitution.

(1)

1978 c.29. Section 2(1)(b) was inserted by the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c.19), section 28(a)(ii) and was amended by the Smoking, Health and Social Care (Scotland) Act 2005 (asp 13), Schedule 2, paragraph 2(2); section 105(7), which contains provisions relevant to the making of orders, was amended by the Health Services Act 1980 (c.53), Schedule 6, paragraph 5(1) and Schedule 7, the Health and Social Services and Social Security Adjudications Act 1983 (c.41), Schedule 9, paragraph 24 and the Health Act 1999 (c.8) (“the 1999 Act”), Schedule 4, paragraph 60. See section 66(1) of the 1999 Act in relation to any provision of that Act being taken to be a pre-commencement enactment within the meaning of the Scotland Act 1998 (c.46) (“the 1998 Act”). The functions of the Secretary of State so far as they are exercisable in Scotland were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the 1998 Act.

(2)

NHS Quality Improvement Scotland is a Special Health Board constituted by article 3 of the NHS Quality Improvement Scotland Order 2002 (S.S.I. 2002/534).

(3)

S.S.I. 2002/534.

(4)

S.S.I. 2002/535.

(5)

S.S.I. 2005/115.

(6)

S.S.I. 2005/120.