Functions to be exercised by Local Health Boards
4.—(1) Subject to regulation 5, the functions to be exercised by a Local Health Board as from the relevant date are, subject to any prohibitions or restrictions in a LHB Order:
(a)functions of former Health Authorities in Wales which were transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by the Health Authorities (Transfer of Functions, Staff, Property, Rights and Liabilities and Abolition) (Wales) Order 2003(1) and which former Local Health Boards were directed to exercise on 1 April 2003 by the Local Health Boards (Functions) (Wales) Regulations 2003(2); and
(b)functions of the Welsh Ministers insofar as they are not functions under sub-paragraph (a) as are specified in the Schedule.
(2) The functions referred to in paragraph (1)(a) in particular include but are not limited to such of those functions as are specified in the Schedule.
S.I. 2003/813 (W.98). This Order provided that from 1 April 2003 all functions of Health Authorities in Wales were transferred to the National Assembly for Wales and that all such Health Authorities were abolished.
The Local Health Boards (Functions) (Wales) Regulations 2003 (S.I 2003/150 (W.20)) provided that from 1 April 2003 the functions of former Health Authorities in Wales, which transferred to the National Assembly for Wales pursuant to S.I. 2003/813 (W.98), were (subject to certain exceptions relating to specialist commissioning functions) made exercisable by Local Health Boards.