Statutory Instruments
2005 No. 2278 (C.95)
FOOD
The Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (Commencement) (No. 7) Order 2005
Made
11th August 2005
The Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred upon her by section 199(1)(a) and (3) of the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003( 1 ) and of all other powers enabling her in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:
Citation and interpretation
1. —(1) This Order may be cited as the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (Commencement) (No. 7) Order 2005.
(2) In this Order “the Act” means the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003.
(3) In article 2 any reference to a section or a schedule is a reference to a section of or a schedule to the Act.
Appointed day
2. —(1) 12th August 2005 shall be the day appointed for the coming into force of section 185(1) (replacement of the Welfare Food Schemes: Great Britain) for the purpose only of consultation by the Secretary of State of the Scottish Ministers and the National Assembly for Wales before establishing, or varying, a scheme.
(2) 7th October 2005 shall be the day appointed for the coming into force of—
(a) section 185 for all other purposes except for the purposes of the Assembly—
(i) exercising by regulations the power to prescribe descriptions of food in relation to the operation of a scheme in Wales;
(ii) giving directions with the agreement of the Secretary of State—
(aa) to a body administering a scheme (or part of a scheme),
(bb) in relation to matters relating to the operation of a scheme (or that part of the scheme) in Wales; and
(b) section 196 (repeals and revocations) in so far as it relates to Part 5 of Schedule 14.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health
Warner
Minister of State
Department of Health
11th August 2005
2003 c. 43 . Section 199(2) defines the “appropriate authority”.