The National Health Service (Indicative Amounts) (Amendment) Regulations 1999

Statutory Instruments

1999 No. 1606

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES

WALES

The National Health Service (Indicative Amounts) (Amendment) Regulations 1999

Made

9th June 1999

Laid before Parliament

10th June 1999

Coming into force

1st July 1999

The Secretary of State for Wales, in exercise of powers conferred on him by section 126(4) of the National Health Service Act 1977(1) and section 18(6) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990(2) and all other powers enabling him in that behalf hereby makes the following Regulations:–

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (Indicative Amounts) (Amendment) Regulations 1999 and shall come into force on 1st July 1999.

Amendment of the National Health Service (Indicative Amounts) Regulations 1997

2.—(1) The National Health Service (Indicative Amounts) Regulations 1997(3) shall be amended in accordance with this regulation.

(2) In paragraph 2 of regulation 1–

(a) the definition of “Welsh Health Common Services Authority” is omitted;

(b) after the definition of “the 1990 Act” there is inserted ““Bro Taf Health Authority” means the health authority of that name established by the Health Authorities (Wales) Establishment Order 1996(4).”.

(3) In paragraph 3 of regulation 2 for “Welsh Health Common Services Authority” there is substituted “Bro Taf Health Authority”.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales

Jon Owen Jones

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Welsh Office

9th June 1999

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the National Health Service (Indicative Amounts) Regulations 1997 so as to provide for the Bro Taf Health Authority to perform the function previously performed under those Regulations by the Welsh Health Common Services Authority. The Welsh Health Common Services Authority was abolished, by the Welsh Health Common Services Authority (Abolition) Order, on 1st April 1999.

(1)

1977 c. 49. Section 126(4) was amended by section 65(2) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19) (“the 1990 Act”); see section 128(1), as amended by section 26(2)(g) and (i) of the 1990 Act and paragraph 58 of Schedule 1 to the Health Authorities Act 1995 (c. 17) (“the 1995 Act”), for the definition of “regulations”.

(2)

1990 c. 19. Section 18 was amended by paragraph 77 of Schedule 1 to the 1995 Act.

(3)

S.I. 1997/980.

(4)

S.I. 1996/146.