The National Health Service (Amendment) Act 1995 (Commencement No. 1 and Saving) Order 1995

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order brings into force on 21st December 1995 certain provisions of the National Health Service (Amendment) Act 1995, which amends the National Health Service Act 1977.

The provisions brought into force relate to powers of the National Health Service Tribunal—

(a)to direct the interim suspension of practitioners providing family health services under the National Health Service Act 1977, and

(b)to declare when disqualifying them from inclusion in any list of such practitioners kept by a Family Health Services Authority that they are not fit to be engaged in any capacity in the provision of those services;

but these provisions are brought into force only in relation to doctors and dentists.

This Order also brings into force on the same date amendments to the National Health Service Act 1977 relating to the abolition of appeals from the NHS Tribunal to the Secretary of State and of the right to apply to the Secretary of State for the removal of a disqualification directed by the Tribunal, but article 3 of the Order provides that these amendments are not to affect appeals and applications made before 21st December 1995.

This Order further brings into force on the same date amendments to the 1977 Act relating to the constitution of the Tribunal and to its procedures.

The amendments brought into force by this Order extend only to England and Wales.