The National Health Service (Charges for Drugs and Appliances) Amendment Regulations 2007

Statutory Instruments

2007 No. 543

National health service, england

The National Health Service (Charges for Drugs and Appliances) Amendment Regulations 2007

Made

23rd February 2007

Laid before Parliament

2nd March 2007

Coming into force

1st April 2007

The Secretary of State for Health makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred on her by sections 77 and 126(4) of the National Health Service Act 1977(1).

(1)

1977 (c.49). Section 77 has been amended by section 184 of, and paragraphs 7 and 28 of Schedule 11 to, the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (c. 43) (“the 2003 Act”). Section 126(4) has been amended by section 65(2) of the 1990 Act, section 65(1) of, and paragraphs 4 and 37 of Schedule 4 to, the Health Act 1999 (c.8)(“the 1999 Act”), section 67(1) of, and paragraph 5 and 13 of Part 1 of Schedule 5 to, the Health and Social Care Act 2001 (c.15), sections 6(3)(c) and 37(1) of the Reform Act 2002 and sections 184 and 196 of, and paragraphs 7 and 38 of Schedule 11 to, and Part 4 of Schedule 14 to the 2003 Act. See also section 128(1) of the National Health Service Act 1977 (“the 1977 Act”), as amended by section 26(2)(g) and (i) of the 1990 Act, for the definitions of “prescribed” and “regulations”. The functions of the Secretary of State under these provisions are, so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by article 2(a) of the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999, S.I. 1999/672, as amended by section 66(5) of the 1999 Act. With effect from 1 March 2007, sections 77 and 126(4) of the 1977 Act will be repealed by section 6 of, and Schedule 4 to, the National Health Service (Consequential Provisions) Act 2006 (c.43) and section 77 will be consolidated in sections 172 and 174 of the National Health Service Act 2006(c.41) (“the 2006 Consolidation Act”) and section 126(4) will be consolidated in section 272(7) of the 2006 Consolidation Act.