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Statutory Instruments

2008 No. 1877

National Health Service, England

Social Care, England

The Local Involvement Networks (Amendment) Regulations 2008

Made

11th July 2008

Laid before Parliament

18th July 2008

Coming into force

1st September 2008

The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 228(3) of the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007(1).

Citation and commencement

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Local Involvement Networks (Amendment) Regulations 2008.

(2) These Regulations shall come into force on 1st September 2008.

Amendment of regulation 7 of the Local Involvement Networks Regulations 2008

2.  In the Local Involvement Networks Regulations 2008(2), in regulation 7 (relevant time), in paragraph (a), for “30th September 2008” substitute “31st December 2008”.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health.

Ann Keen

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,

Department of Health

11th July 2008

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend regulation 7 of the Local Involvement Networks Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/528) (the “principal Regulations”).

Section 228 of the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007 (c.28) (“the Act”) places a temporary duty on local authorities to ensure until the “relevant time” that there are means by which activities specified in section 221(2) of the Act may be carried on. Regulation 7 of the principal Regulations defines the “relevant time”. These Regulations amend that definition so as to extend the maximum period for which the temporary duty applies.

A full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no impact on the private or voluntary sectors is foreseen.