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Scottish Statutory Instruments
NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE
Made
26th January 2006
Coming into force
1st April 2006
The Scottish Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 2(1)(a) and 105(6) and (7) of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978(1) and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:
1. This Order may be cited as the National Health Service (Constitution of the Health Boards) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2006 and shall come into force on 1st April 2006.
2.—(1) Argyll and Clyde Health Board is hereby dissolved.
(2) In the Schedule to the National Health Service (Constitution of Health Boards) (Scotland) Order 1974(2) – omit “Argyll and Clyde Health Board”.
ANDREW P KERR
A member of the Scottish Executive
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
26th January 2006
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order varies and revokes provisions in the National Health Service (Constitution of Health Boards) (Scotland) Order 1974 (“the principal Order”) which constitutes Health Boards for each of the areas of Scotland set out in the Schedule to the National Health Service (Determination of Areas of Health Boards) (Scotland) Order 1974.
Article 2(1) dissolves Argyll and Clyde Health Board. Article 2(2) amends the Schedule to the principal Order which provides for the titles by which the constituted Boards are to be known, to remove the reference to Argyll and Clyde Health Board.
1978 c. 29; section 2(1) was amended by the Health and Social Services and Social Security Adjudications Act 1983 (c. 41) (“the 1983 Act”), Schedule 7, paragraph 1 and the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19), section 28; section 105(7), which contains provisions relevant to the making of orders, was amended by the Health Services Act 1980 (c. 53), Schedule 6, paragraph 5 and Schedule 7 and by the 1983 Act, Schedule 9, paragraph 24 and the Health Act 1999 (c. 8), Schedule 4, paragraph 60. The functions of the Secretary of State were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46).
S.I. 1974/267; the Schedule was substituted by S.S.I. 2003/217.