The National Institute for Clinical Excellence (Amendment) Regulations 1999

This instrument has been made to correct errors in S.I. 1999/260 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.

Statutory Instruments

1999 No. 2218

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES

The National Institute for Clinical Excellence (Amendment) Regulations 1999

Made

5th August 1999

Laid before Parliament

6th August 1999

Coming into force

27th August 1999

The Secretary of State for Health in exercise of powers conferred on him by section 126(4) of, and paragraphs 10 and 12 of Schedule 5 to, the National Health Service Act 1977(1) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

(1)

1977 c. 49. Section 126(4) was amended by section 65(2) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19) (“the 1990 Act”); paragraph 12 of Schedule 5 was amended by article 7 of S.I. 1985/39, by paragraph 9 of Schedule 1 to the 1990 Act and by paragraph 60(e) of Schedule 1 to the Health Authorities Act 1995 (c. 17). See section 128(1), as amended by section 26(2)(g) and (i) of the 1990 Act, for the definitions of “prescribed” and “regulations”. Functions under these sections of the 1977 Act, in relation to the National Institute for Clinical Excellence, are, by their nature, exercisable concurrently with the Secretary of State by virtue of article 2(c) of the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 S.I. 1999/672.