The Health and Personal Social Services (2001 Act) (Commencement No. 2) Order (Northern Ireland) 2001

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2001 No. 324 (C. 16)

HEALTH AND PERSONAL SOCIAL SERVICES

The Health and Personal Social Services (2001 Act) (Commencement No. 2) Order (Northern Ireland) 2001

Made

19th September 2001

The Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety(1), in exercise of the powers conferred on it by section 61(2) of the Health and Personal Social Services Act (Northern Ireland) 2001(2) and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and Interpretation

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Health and Personal Social Services (2001 Act) (Commencement No. 2) Order (Northern Ireland) 2001.

(2) In this Order:

“the Act” means the Health and Personal Social Services Act (Northern Ireland) 2001;

“the Council” means the Northern Ireland Social Care Council;

“the Department” means the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety.

Appointed days

2.—(1) 1st October 2001 is the day appointed for the coming into operation of the following provisions of the Act:

(a) sections 1(2) (duty of the Council), 14 (functions of the Department), 17 (cesser of the functions of the Central Council for Education and Training in Social Work) and 19 (default powers of the Department); and

(b) for the purpose only of the exercise of any power of the Council to make rules, sections 4 and 5.

(2) The day appointed for the coming into operation of section 54(3) of the Act (public access to meetings of the Mental Health Commission) is 1st November 2001.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety on 19th September 2001.

L.S.

P. Simpson

Senior Officer of the

Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order.)

This Order brings into operation on two dates certain provisions of the Health and Personal Social Services Act (Northern Ireland) 2001 (“the Act”).

Article 2(1) of the Order brings into operation the provisions of Part I of the Act relating to social care workers, as follows:

(a) sections 1(2) (the duty of the Council) on 1st October 2001;

(b) for the purpose only of the exercise of any power to make rules, sections 4 and 5 on 1st October 2001.

(c) sections 14 (functions of the Department), 17 (cessation of the functions of CCETSW) and 19 (default powers of the Department) on 1st October 2001.

Article 2(2) of the Order brings Section 54(3) (public access to meetings of the Mental Health Commission) into operation on 1st November 2001.

Note as to Earlier Commencement Orders

(This note is not part of the Order.)

The following provisions of the Health and Personal Social Services Act (Northern Ireland) 2001 were brought into operation by the Health and Personal Social Services (2001 Act) (Commencement No. 1) Order (Northern Ireland) 2001 (C. 5) on the following dates:

Provision	Date of Commencement
Sections 23 to 38	2nd April 2001
Sections 41 to 47	2nd April 2001
Sections 50 to 52	2nd April 2001
Section 56 and Schedule 4	2nd April 2001
Section 60(3) and Schedule 5 (partially)	2nd April 2001
Sections 1(1), (3) and (4), Section 2 and Schedule 1	1st June 2001
Sections 6, 7, 9, 10, 12, 13 and 18 (so far as necessary to allow the Council to make rules and prepare codes of practice)	1st June 2001
Sections 20 to 22	1st June 2001
Section 54(1) and (2)	1st June 2001
Sections 53 and 55, and Schedule 3	2nd July 2001

(1)

See S.I. 1999/283 (N.I. 1) Article 3(6)

(2)

2001 c. 3 (N.I.)