Statutory Instruments
NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND
Made
8th March 2004
Laid before Parliament
11th March 2004
Coming into force
1st April 2004
The Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 121 and 126(4) of the National Health Service Act 1977(1) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:
1977 c. 49; see section 128 (1) as amended by section 26(2)(g) and (i), for the definitions of “prescribed” and “regulations”. Section 121 was amended by section 65(2) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19) (“the 1990 Act”) and by paragraph 37(6) of Schedule 4 to the Health Act 1999 (c. 8)(“the 1999 Act”); section 126(4) was amended by section 65(2) of the 1990 Act, section 65(1) of, and paragraphs 4 and 37(1) and (6) of Schedule 4 to, the 1999 Act, section 67(1) of, and paragraph 5(1) and (13)(b) of Schedule 5 to, the Health and Social Care Act 2001 (c. 15) and sections 6(3)(c) and 37(1) of, and paragraphs 1 and 10(a) of Schedule 8 to, the National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 (c. 17) and section 184 of, and paragraph 38 of Schedule11 and part 4 of Schedule 14 to, to Health and Social Care(Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (c. 43). The functions of the Secretary of State under these provisions are, so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by article 2(a) of the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999, S.I. 1999/672, as amended by section 66(5) of the 1999 Act.