Statutory Instruments
2001 No. 745
NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND
The Primary Care Trusts (Functions) (England) Amendment Regulations 2001
Made
8th March 2001
Laid before Parliament
9th March 2001
Coming into force
1st April 2001
The Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of powers conferred on him by sections 17, 17A(4), 18(1) and 126(3) and (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, extent and interpretation
1. —(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Primary Care Trusts (Functions) (England) Amendment Regulations 2001 and shall come into force on 1st April 2001.
(2) These Regulations apply in relation to Health Authorities and Primary Care Trusts established for areas in England only.
(3) In these Regulations, “the principal Regulations” means the Primary Care Trusts (Functions) (England) Regulations 2000( 2 ).
Amendment of regulation 2 of the principal Regulations
2. —(1)Regulation 2 of the principal Regulations (interpretation) is amended in accordance with the following paragraphs of this regulation.
(2) In paragraph (1)—
(a) after the definition of “delegable functions” insert the following definition—
“ “financial year” means the period of 12 months ending with 31st March ” ;
(b) for the definition of “the FunctionsRegulations” substitute the following definition—
“ “the Functions Regulations ” means the National Health Service (Functions of Health Authorities and Administration Arrangements) (England) Regulations 2001 ( 3 ) ” ;
(c) at the end of the definition of “practice patient” insert—
“ other than an individual who is resident in Scotland ” ;
(d) in the definition of “relevant date”, in paragraph (b), before “year”, in both places the word appears, insert “financial”.
Amendment of regulation 6 of the principal Regulations
3. In regulation 6 of the principal Regulations (restriction on the exercise of functions by Primary Care Trusts), in paragraph (3), after “general medical services” insert “, or performing personal medical services in connection with a pilot scheme under the 1997 Act( 4 ),”.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health
John Denham
Minister of State,
Department of Health
8th March 2001
1977 c. 49 ; section 17 was substituted, and section 17A inserted, by the Health Act 1999 (c. 8) (“the 1999 Act”), section 12(1); section 18(1) and (1A) was substituted by the 1999 Act, section 12(3); section 126(4) was amended by the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19) (“the 1990 Act”), section 65(2) and by the 1999 Act, Schedule 4, paragraph 37(6); see section 128(1), as amended by section 26(2)(i) and (g) of the 1990 Act for the definitions of “prescribed” and “regulations”. 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 section 1 of the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997 (c. 46) for the definition of “pilot scheme”.