The National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 (Supplementary, Consequential etc. Provisions) Regulations 2002 No. 2469

SCHEDULE 1 AMENDMENTS CONSEQUENTIAL ON PART 1 OF THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE REFORM AND HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONS ACT 2002

PART 2 STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1987

44.  In regulation 43 of the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1987 (children)(1)—

(a) in paragraph (6), for “district health authority” there is substituted “health authority”; and

(b) in paragraph (7)—

(i) the definition of “district health authority” is omitted,

(ii) there is inserted, in the appropriate alphabetical position—

• ““health authority” means—

  (a)

  in relation to England, a Primary Care Trust established under section 16A of the National Health Service Act 1977;

  (b)

  in relation to Wales, a Health Authority established under section 8 of that Act; and

  (c)

  in relation to Scotland, a Health Board within the meaning of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978;”.

(1)

S.I. 1987/1968, amended by S.I. 1991/2741.