The National Health Service (General Medical Services) Amendment Regulations 2000

Statutory Instruments

2000 No. 220

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND

The National Health Service (General Medical Services) Amendment Regulations 2000

Made

3rd February 2000

Laid before Parliament

3rd February 2000

Coming into force

4th February 2000

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 29, 29B and 126(4) of the National Health Service Act 1977(1) hereby makes the following Regulations:

(1)

1977 c. 49; see section 128(1) as amended by the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19), section 26(2)(g) and (i), for the definitions of “prescribed” and “regulations”. Section 29 was extended by the Health and Medicines Act 1988 (c. 49), section 17; and amended by the Health Services Act 1980 (c. 53), sections 1 and 7 and Schedule 1, paragraph 42(b); by the Health and Social Services and Social Security Adjudications Act 1983 (c. 41), Schedule 6, paragraph 2; by the Medical Act 1983 (c. 54), section 56(1) and Schedule 5, paragraph 16(a); by S.I. 1985/39, article 7(3); by the Health Authorities Act 1995 (c. 17), Schedule 1, paragraph 18; and by the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997 (c. 46) (“ the 1997 Act”), Schedule 2, paragraph 8. Section 29B was inserted by the 1997 Act, section 32. Section 126(4) was amended by the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19), section 65(2); and the Health Act 1999 (c. 8), Schedule 4, paragraph 37(6). As regards Wales, the functions of the Secretary of State under sections 29, 29B and 126(4) of the 1977 Act are transferred to the National Assembly for Wales under article 2 of, and Schedule 1 to, the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999, S.I. 1999/672; these Regulations therefore extend only to England.