Appointed day2
The days appointed for the coming into force of the following provisions of the National Health Service Reform (Scotland) Act 2004 are:–
a
1st September 2004, for:–
i
section 1(1), but only for the purpose of providing in that Act that the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 19782 shall be referred to as “the 1978 Act”;
ii
section 2, but only for the purpose of enabling the Scottish Ministers to make regulations under section 4B(6) of the 1978 Act;
b
30th September 2004, for:–
i
sections 1(2) and (3), 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7;
ii
section 2, so far as it is not already in force;
iii
section 11(1), so far as relating to schedule 1, paragraph 1(1), (2), (3) and (6); and
iv
schedule 1, paragraph 1(1), (2), (3) and (6);
c
1st January 2005, for section 9; and
d
1st February 2005, for section 8.