The National Health Service (Local Pharmaceutical Services etc.) Regulations 2006

Statutory Instruments

2006 No. 552

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND

The National Health Service (Local Pharmaceutical Services etc.) Regulations 2006

Made

2nd March 2006

Laid before Parliament

8th March 2006

Coming into force

1st April 2006

The Secretary of State for Health makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 42(2A) and 126(4) of, and paragraphs 1(3), 2(1), 3 and 4 of Schedule 8A to, the National Health Service Act 1977(1) and sections 30, 34, 37(b), 41 and 65(1) and (2) of, and paragraph 1(2)(b) of Schedule 2 to, the Health and Social Care Act 2001(2).

(1)

1977 c. 49. Section 42(2A) was inserted by section 40(3) of the Health and Social Care Act 2001 (c. 15) (“the 2001 Act”). Section 126(4) was amended by: the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19) (“the 1990 Act”), section 65(2); the Health Act 1999 (c. 8) (“the 1999 Act”), Schedule 4, paragraphs 3 and 37(6); the 2001 Act, Schedule 5, paragraphs 5 (13)(b); the National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 (c. 17) (“the 2002 Act”), section 6(3)(c) and Schedule 8, paragraphs 1 and 10(a); and the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (c. 43) (“the 2003 Act”), section 184 and Schedule 11, paragraphs 7 and 38 and Schedule 14, Part 4. Schedule 8A was inserted by section 40(1) and (2) of, and Schedule 3 to, the 2001 Act, and has been amended by: the 2002 Act, Schedule 2, paragraph 81, and Schedule 9, Part 1; and the 2003 Act, Schedule 4, paragraph 44, and Schedule 11, paragraph 41. See section 128(1) of the Act, as amended by the 1990 Act, section 26(2)(g) and (i), for the definitions of “prescribed” and “regulations” which are relevant to the powers being exercised.

(2)

2001 c. 15.