Private and Voluntary Health Care (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2007

Welsh Statutory Instruments

2007 No. 2332 (W.190)

PUBLIC HEALTH, WALES

Private and Voluntary Health Care (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2007

Made

7 August 2007

Laid before the National Assembly for Wales

9 August 2007

Coming into force

7 September 2007

The Welsh Ministers, in exercise of powers conferred on them by sections 2(4) and 2(8) of the Care Standards Act 2000(1), hereby make the following Regulations:

Title, commencement and application

1.—(1) The title of these Regulations is the Private and Voluntary Health Care (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2007 and they come into force on 7 September 2007.

(2) These regulations apply in relation to Wales.

Interpretation

2.  In these regulations—

“the Principal Regulations” (“y Prif Reolidadau”) means the Private and Voluntary Health Care (Wales) Regulations 2002(2).

Amendment of the Private and Voluntary Health Care (Wales) Regulations 2002

3.—(1) In regulation 3(3)(h) of the Principal Regulations omit the words “or another person”.

(2) In regulation 4(1)(b) of the Principal Regulations omit the words “or another person”.

(3) In regulation 4A of the Principal Regulations omit the words “or another person”.

Edwina Hart

Minister for Health and Social Services, one of the Welsh Ministers Name

7 August 2007

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These regulations are made under the Care Standards Act 2000 and amend the Private and Voluntary Health Care (Wales) Regulations 2002. They amend the exceptions to registration as an independent hospital, independent clinic and independent medical agency by removing the words “or another person” in regulations 3(3)(h), 4(1)(b) and 4A.

(1)

2000 c. 14. The powers are conferred upon the “appropriate Minister”. “Appropriate Minister” means the Assembly in relation to Wales: see section 121(1) of the Act. The powers are transferred to the Welsh Ministers by section 162 and paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to the Government of Wales Act 2006 (C.32).

(2)

SI 2002/325 (W.38) as amended by SI 2006/1703 (W.165).