The Health Service Commissioner for England (Special Health Authorities) Order 2005

Statutory Instruments

2005 No. 251

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Health Service Commissioner for England (Special Health Authorities) Order 2005

Made

9th February 2005

Laid before Parliament

21st February 2005

Coming into force

14th March 2005

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 9th day of February 2005

Present,

The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers in section 2(5)(b) and (6)(b) of the Health Service Commissioners Act 1993(1), is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Health Service Commissioner for England (Special Health Authorities) Order 2005 and shall come into force on 14th March 2005.

Designation as body subject to investigation

2.  Each of the bodies listed in column 1 of the Schedule to this Order (established by the Statutory Instrument for which the reference is given in column 2) is designated as a Special Health Authority to which section 2(1) of the Health Service Commissioners Act 1993 (bodies subject to investigation by the Health Service Commissioner for England) (2) applies.

A K Galloway

Clerk of the Privy Council

Article 2

SCHEDULE SPECIAL HEALTH AUTHORITIES DESIGNATED AS SUBJECT TO INVESTIGATION

Column 1	Column 2
Name of Special Health Authority	Reference for Establishment Order of the Special Health Authority
National Health Service Litigation Authority	1995/2800(3)
National Institute for Clinical Excellence	1999/220(4)
National Patient Safety Agency	2001/1743(5)
National Treatment Agency	2001/713(6)
Counter Fraud and Security Management Service	2002/3039
NHSU	2003/2772
NHS Professionals Special Health Authority	2003/3059(7)
NHS Direct	2004/569
NHS Pensions Agency (Asiantaeth Pensiynau'r GIG)	2004/667

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order designates the Special Health Authorities listed in the Schedule as health service bodies subject to investigation by the Health Service Commissioner for England under section 2 of the Health Service Commissioners Act 1993.

(1)

1993 c. 46; section 2(5) was amended by sections 112 and 152 of, and paragraph 3(3) of Schedule 10 and Part 1 of Schedule 18 to, the Government of Wales Act 1998 (c. 38) (“the 1998 Act”); section 2(6) was substituted by section 112 of, and paragraph 3(4) of Schedule 10 to, the 1998 Act.

(2)

Amendment relevant to this Order was made to section 2(1)(c) by the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (c. 43), section 184 and Schedule 11, paragraphs 60 and 61(a).

(3)

Amended by S.I. 2002/2621.

(4)

Amended by S.I.1999/2219 and S.I. 2002/1760.

(5)

Amended by S.I. 2003/1077.

(6)

Amended by S.I. 2003/1827.

(7)

Amended by S.I. 2004/951.