The Primary Medical Services (Sale of Goodwill and Restrictions on Sub-contracting) Regulations 2004

Statutory Instruments

2004 No. 906

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Primary Medical Services (Sale of Goodwill and Restrictions on Sub-contracting) Regulations 2004

Made

24th March 2004

Laid before Parliament

25th March 2004

Coming into force

1st April 2004

The Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 28E, 28V, 54(1)(c) and 126(4) of, and paragraph 1(3) of Schedule 10 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 28E was inserted by the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997 (“the 1997 Act”), section 22(1), and amended by: the Health Act 1999 (c. 8) (“the 1999 Act”), Schedule 5; the Health and Social Care Act 2001 (c. 15) (“the 2001 Act”), section 27(5)(a); and the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (c. 43) (“the 2003 Act”), section 177. Section 28V was inserted by section 175 of the 2003 Act. Section 54 was substituted by the 1997 Act, section 34(1), and was amended by the National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 (c. 17), section 2(5) and Schedule 2, Part 1, paragraph 29 and the 2003 Act, section 184 and Schedule 11, paragraphs 7 and 26. Section 126(4) was amended by the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19), section 65(2), the 1999 Act, Schedule 4, paragraph 37(6) and the 2001 Act, Schedule 5, paragraph 5(13)(b). Paragraph 1(3) of Schedule 10 was amended by the 1997 Act, section 41(10) and (12) and Schedule 2, paragraph 30(2) and Schedule 3, Part 1 and the 2001 Act, section 14(3). Functions under paragraph 1(3) of Schedule 10 were not transferred to the National Assembly for Wales under the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672).