The Commission for Patient and Public Involvement in Health (Functions) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2003

Statutory Instruments

2003 No. 2044

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND

The Commission for Patient and Public Involvement in Health (Functions) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2003

Made

7th August 2003

Laid before Parliament

8th August 2003

Coming into force

1st September 2003

The Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 20(2)(g) and (9) and 38(7) of the National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002(1) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement, application and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Commission for Patient and Public Involvement in Health (Functions) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2003 and shall come into force on 1st September 2003.

(2) These Regulations apply to England only.

(3) In these Regulations, “the principal Regulations” means the Commission for Patient and Public Involvement in Health (Functions) Regulations 2002(2).

Insertion of regulation 1A in the principal Regulations

2.  After regulation 1 of the principal Regulations (citation, commencement, application and interpretation) there shall be inserted—

“Functions of the Commission

1A.— (1) It is also the function of the Commission—

(a) to manage and monitor any contracts entered into by the Secretary of State for the provision of independent advocacy services; and

(b) to make to the Secretary of State such reports or recommendations as the Commission thinks fit concerning any matters relating to such contracts.

(2) This regulation shall cease to have effect on 31st August 2005.”.

Amendment of regulation 2 of the principal Regulations

3.  In regulation 2 of the principal Regulations (annual work programme)—

(a) after sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph (2) there shall be inserted—

“(aa) proposals as to arrangements to be made by the Commission in relation to their function under regulation 1A.”.

(b) at the end there shall be added the following paragraph—

“(6) Sub-paragraph (aa) of paragraph (2) shall cease to have effect on 31st August 2005.”.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

Warner

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Department of Health

7th August 2003

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Commission for Patient and Public Involvement in Health (Functions) Regulations 2002 (“the principal Regulations”).

Regulation 2 confers on the Commission an additional function of managing and monitoring contracts entered into by the Secretary of State for the provision of independent advocacy services and of making reports and recommendations to the Secretary of State on such contracts.

Regulation 3 amends the provisions in regulation 2 of the principal Regulations (annual work programme) to provide that the work programme shall also cover arrangements for carrying out this additional function.

Both provisions cease to have effect on 31st August 2005.

(1)

2002 c. 17.

(2)

S.I. 2002/3007 as amended by S.I. 2003/497.