The National Health Service Functions (Directions to Authorities and Administration Arrangements) Regulations 1991

Functions exercisable by District Authorities in Wales

7.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2) and regulation 8, every District Authority in Wales shall exercise on behalf of the Secretary of State the specified health service functions except those under section 19(1) and (2) of, and paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 of Schedule 6 to the Act (recognition of advisory committees)—

(a) in so far as those functions consist of providing or securing the provision of services to patients under the Act, other than the services specified in sub-paragraph (b) of this paragraph, for the benefit of—

(i) persons usually resident in its district;

(ii) persons resident outside the United Kingdom who are present in its district;

(b) in so far as those functions consist of providing or securing the provision of—

(i) accident and emergency services, including ambulance services provided in connection with those services; and

(i) any other services which the Secretary of State may direct,

for the benefit of all persons present in its district; and

(c) in so far as they consist of any other functions, generally as respects its district.

(2) The functions exercisable by a District Authority in Wales under paragraph (1)(a) do not include the providing or securing the provision of any services which are, or are to be, purchased by the members of a recognised fund-holding practice in accordance with regulations under section 15(7) of the 1990 Act.

(3) A District Authority in Wales shall exercise the specified health service functions in accordance with paragraph (1) at or from hospitals, establishments and facilities owned by the Secretary of State for the purposes of the health service and situated in its district or anywhere outside its district that the Secretary of State may direct, as well as by means of NHS and other contracts.