Statutory Instruments
2003 No. 1827
NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND
The National Treatment Agency (Establishment and Constitution) Amendment Order 2003
Made
15th July 2003
Laid before Parliament
22nd July 2003
Coming into force
12th August 2003
The Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 11(1), (2) and (4) and 126(3) of the National Health Service Act 1977( 1 ), and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:
Citation, commencement, application and interpretation
1. —(1) This Order may be cited as the National Treatment Agency (Establishment and Constitution) Amendment Order 2003 and shall come into force on 12th August 2003.
(2) This Order applies to England only.
(3) In this Order “the Order” means the National Treatment Agency (Establishment and Constitution) Order 2001( 2 ).
Amendment of article 4 of the Order
2. —(1) Article 4 of the Order (constitution of the Agency) is amended as follows.
(2) In paragraph (b), for “not less than 3 and not more than 8 members” there is substituted “not less than 3 and not more than 12 members”; and
(3) In paragraph (d), for “not less than 2 and not more than 3 members” there is substituted “not less than 2 and not more than 4 members”.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health
Melanie Johnson
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Department of Health
15th July 2003
1977 c. 49 ; section 11 was amended by paragraph 2 of Schedule 1 to the Health Authorities Act 1995 (c. 17) (“the 1995 Act”) and by paragraph 6 of Schedule 4 to the Health Act 1999 (c. 8) (“the 1999 Act”); section 126(3) was amended by section 65(2) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19) , by paragraph 57 of Schedule 1 to the 1995 Act and by section 41(10) of, and paragraph 27 of Schedule 2 to, the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997 (c. 46) . 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.