Statutory Instruments
2016 No. 51
National Health Service, England
The National Health Service (Mandate Requirements) Regulations 2016
Made
20th January 2016
Laid before Parliament
27th January 2016
Coming into force
1st April 2016
The Secretary of State for Health makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 13A(9) and 272(7) of the National Health Service Act 2006( 1 ).
In accordance with section 13A(1) of that Act, the Secretary of State has published and laid before Parliament the mandate( 2 ).
Citation, commencement and expiry
1. —(1) These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (Mandate Requirements) Regulations 2016 and come into force on 1st April 2016.
(2) These Regulations cease to have effect at the end of 31st March 2017.
Mandate requirements
2. The requirements set out in paragraph 6.2 of the Annex in the mandate to the National Health Service Commissioning Board( 3 ) published by the Secretary of State on 17th December 2015 and laid before Parliament on that date( 4 ) have effect.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health.
Prior
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,
Department of Health
20th January 2016
2006 c.41 (“the 2006 Act”). Section 13A was inserted by section 23(1) of the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c.7) (“the 2012 Act”). By virtue of section 271(1) of the 2006 Act, the powers exercised in making these Regulations are exercisable by the Secretary of State only in relation to England. See section 275(1) of the 2006 Act for the definition of “regulations”.
See section 13A(1) of the 2006 Act for the meaning of “mandate”.
The National Health Service Commissioning Board was established by section 1H of the 2006 Act, as inserted by section 9(1) of the 2012 Act.
The mandate is published at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nhs-mandate-2016-to-2017 . A hard copy may be obtained on request by writing to the Department of Health, 79 Whitehall, London, SW1A 2NS.