This Statutory Instrument has been made in consequence of a defect in the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Amendment Regulations 2000 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that statutory instrument.
Statutory Instruments
2000 No. 909
NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND
The National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2000
Made
30th March 2000
Laid before Parliament
30th March 2000
Coming into force
31st March 2000
The Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred 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:
Citation, commencement and extent
1. —(1) These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2000 and shall come into force on 31st March 2000.
(2) These Regulations extend to England only.
Amendment of regulation 1 of the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Amendment Regulations 2000
2. At the end of regulation 1(1) of the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Amendment Regulations 2000( 2 ) there shall be added the words “and shall come into force on 1st April 2000”.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health
John Hutton
Minister of State,
Department of Health
30th March 2000
1977 c. 49 ; section 121 was amended by section 7(12) and (14) of the Health and Medicines Act 1988 (c. 49) . Section 126(4) was amended by section 65(2) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19) and by the Health Act 1999 (c. 8) (“the 1999 Act”), Schedule 4, paragraph 37(6). See section 128(1) of the National Health Service Act 1977 for the definition of “regulations”. The functions of the Secretary of State under the National Health Service Act 1977 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: these Regulations, therefore, do not extend to Wales.