Statutory Instruments
2001 No. 2631
NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND
The Primary Care Trusts (Membership, Procedure and Administration Arrangements) Amendment (England) Regulations 2001
Made
19th July 2001
Laid before Parliament
20th July 2001
Coming into force
13th August 2001
The Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 126(4) of, and paragraph 5(1) of Schedule 5A to, the National Health Service Act 1977( 1 ), hereby makes the following Regulations:
Citation, commencement and extent
1. —(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Primary Care Trusts (Membership, Procedure and Administration Arrangements) Amendment (England) Regulations 2001 and shall come into force on 13th August 2001.
(2) These Regulations extend to England only.
Amendment of Regulations
2. In Schedule 1 to the Primary Care Trusts (Membership, Procedure and Administration Arrangements) Regulations 2000( 2 ) (Special Health Authorities of which the chairman and members are not disqualified under regulation 5(1)(e))—
(a) after “National Blood Authority” insert “National Clinical Assessment Authority”( 3 ), and
(b) after “National Institute for Clinical Excellence” insert “United Kingdom Transplant”( 4 ).
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health
John Hutton
Minister of State,
Department of Health
19th July 2001
1977 c. 49 ; section 126(4) 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) ; see section 128(1), as amended by section 26(2)(i)and (g) of the 1990 Act, for the definition of “regulations”; Schedule 5A was inserted by Schedule 1 to the Health Act 1999 (c. 8) (“the 1999 Act”). 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, and the entry for the 1977 Act in Schedule 1 to, the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999. S.I. 1999/672 , as amended by section 66(5) of the 1999 Act.
See S.I. 2000/2961 and 2962 .
See S.I. 1991/407 , as amended by S.I. 1998/1577 and 2000/1621 and S.I. 1991/408 , as amended by S.I. 1996/707 , 1997/2991 and 2000/696 .