This Order revokes the Channel Tunnel (Emergency Medical Services)Order 1991 which contained a technical error. The provisions of thatOrder are remade subject to its correction.

This Order is made under section 11 of the Channel Tunnel Act 1987and relates to the provision of medical services in an emergency inrelation to any need for that provision arising within the tunnelsystem.

The Order applies the National Health Service Act 1977 (“the 1977 Act”) and the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (andsubordinate legislation and other instruments made under those Acts) inrelation to such need as if the tunnel system were part of England andin particular part of Dover District.

The Order also amends section 5(2B) of the 1977 Act (which specifiesparticular cases in which functions may be exercised outside England andWales) by providing that, in relation to such need, the Secretary ofState’s functions include the function of taking a patient outside thetunnel system for the purposes of medical treatment.