Health Authorities (Membership and Procedure) Amendment (England) Regulations 2001

Statutory Instruments

2001 No. 751

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND

Health Authorities (Membership and Procedure) Amendment (England) Regulations 2001

Made

8th March 2001

Laid before Parliament

9th March 2001

Coming into force

1st April 2001

The Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 126(4) of, and paragraph 12 of Schedule 5 to, the National Health Service Act 1977(1) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

(1)

1977 c. 49; section 126(4) was amended by the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19) (“the 1990 Act”), section 65(2) and by the Health Act 1999 (c. 8) (“the 1999 Act”), Schedule 4, paragraph 37(6); see section 128(1), as amended by section 26(2)(i) and (g) of the 1990 Act, for the definitions of “prescribed” and “regulations”; paragraph 12 of Schedule 5 was amended by the 1990 Act, Schedule 1, paragraph 9, by the Health Authorities Act 1995 (c. 17), (“the 1995 Act”), Schedule 1, paragraph 60(e), and by the 1999 Act, Schedule 4, paragraph 39(4). For the definition of “authority” used in paragraph 12 of Schedule 5, see paragraph 8 of Schedule 5; paragraph 8 of Schedule 5 was amended by the Health Services Act 1980 (c. 53), Schedule 1, paragraph 80(2), by the 1990 Act, Schedule 1, paragraph 6 and by the 1995 Act, Schedule 1, paragraph 60(a). The functions of the Secretary of State under these provisions are, so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by article 2(a) of, and the entry for the 1977 Act in Schedule 1 to, the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999, S.I. 1999/672, as amended by section 66(5) of the 1999 Act.