1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Transfer of Functions (Health and Social Security) Order 1988.
(2) In this Order—
“the new Departments” means the Department of Health and the Department of Social Security, and any reference to “the new Secretaries of State” is a reference to the Secretaries of State for those Departments;
“health and personal social services functions” means such of the functions of the Secretary of State as, immediately before 26th July 1988 (the date on which the new Secretaries of State were appointed) were entrusted to the Secretary of State for Social Services, other than his social security functions;
“social security functions” means such of the following functions of the Secretary of State, that is to say—
his functions under the enactments and instrument specified in Schedule 1 to this Order, and
the functions transferred to him from the Minister of Social Security by the Secretary of State for Social Services Order 1968(1) or subsequently conferred upon him in the exercise of any function so transferred, as, immediately before 26th July 1988, were entrusted to the Secretary of State for Social Services.
(3) This Order shall come into force on 28th November 1988.
S.I. 1968/1699.