The National Health Service (Functions of Strategic Health Authorities and Primary Care Trusts and Administration Arrangements) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2007

Statutory Instruments

2007 No. 559

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND

The National Health Service (Functions of Strategic Health Authorities and Primary Care Trusts and Administration Arrangements) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2007

Made

26th 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 by sections 16D, 17, 18 and 126(4) of the National Health Service Act 1977(1):

(1)

1977 c.49. Section 16D was substituted by the Health Act 1999 (c.8) (“the 1999 Act”), section 12(1) and amended by the National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 (c.17) (“the 2002 Act”), section 3(2) and Schedule 1, paragraph 6. Section 17 was substituted by the 1999 Act, section 12(1) and amended by the 2002 Act, Schedule 1, paragraph 7; section 17(3) was substituted by the Health and Social Care Act 2001 (c.15) (“the 2001 Act”), Schedule 5, paragraph 5(3). Section 18(1) to (1B) was substituted by the 1999 Act, section 12(3); section 18(1A) was amended by the 2002 Act, section 3(5) and Schedule 1, paragraph 9 and Schedule 9 and the Health (Wales) Act 2003 (c.4), Schedule 3, paragraph 3; section 18(1B) was amended by the 2002 Act, Schedule 1, paragraph 9; section 18(2) was repealed by the Health Authorities Act 1995 (c.17) (“the 1995 Act”), Schedule 1, paragraph 9 and Schedule 3; and section 18(3) was amended by the 1995 Act, section 3(8) and Schedule 1, paragraph 9 and Schedule 3. Section 126(4) was amended by the 1990 Act, section 65(2), the 1999 Act, Schedule 4, paragraph 37, the 2001 Act, Schedule 5, paragraph 5(13)(b), the 2002 Act, section 6(3)(c) and Schedule 8, paragraph 10 and the Health and Social Care (Community Care and Standards) Act 2003 (c.43) (“the 2003 Act”), Schedule 11, paragraph 38 and Schedule 14, Part 4. See section 128(1) as amended by the 1990 Act, section 26(2)(g) and (i), 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, and the entry for the National Health Service Act 1977 in Schedule 1 to, the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999, S.I.1999/672, as amended by the 1999 Act, section 66(4) and (5)(a), the 2001 Act, section 67(1) and Schedule 5, paragraph 12, and the 2003 Act, section 196 and Schedule 14, Part 4. See also the 2001 Act, section 68, the 2002 Act, section 40 and the 2003 Act, section 197. Sections 16D, 17, 18 and 126 of the National Health Service Act 1977 are repealed by the National Health Service (Consequential Provisions) Act 2006 (c. 43), section 6 and Schedule 4, with effect from 1st March 2007. For corresponding provisions, which come into force on the same date, see sections 7, 8, 73, 272(7) to (9) and 273(1), (3) and (4) of the National Health Service Act 2006 (c. 41).