Statutory Instrument 1989 No. 51

The National Health Service Functions (Directions to Authorities and Administration Arrangements) Regulations 1989

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1989 No. 51

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES

The National Health Service Functions (Directions to Authorities and Administration Arrangements) Regulations 1989

The Secretary of State for Health, as respects England, and the Secretary of State for Wales, as respects Wales, in exercise of powers conferred by sections 13, 14(2), 15(1)(b), 16(1), 17(1) and 18 of the National Health Service Act 1977^[1] and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations:-

Citation and commencement
    1.    These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service Functions (Directions to Authorities and Administration Arrangements) Regulations 1989 and shall come into force on 14th February 1989.

Interpretation
    2.—(1)  In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires -
"the Act" means the National Health Service Act 1977;
"Committee" means a Family Practitioner Committee;
"District Authority" means a District Health Authority;
"Regional Authority" means a Regional Health Authority;
"relevant Regional Authority" in relation to any District Authority means the Regional Authority of which the region includes the district of that District Authority;
"Scheduled functions" means the functions referred to in regulation 3.


    (2)  Unless the context otherwise requires, any reference in these Regulations to a numbered regulation or Schedule is a reference to the regulation or Schedule bearing that number in these Regulations, and any reference in a regulation to a numbered paragraph is a reference to the paragraph bearing that number in that regulation.

[1] 1977 c. 49;see section 128(1) for the definition of "prescribed" and "regulations". Sections 13, 14 and 16 were amended by paragraphs 33, 34 and 36 respectively of Schedule 1 to the Health Services Act 1980 (c. 53) ("the 1980 Act"); section 15 was amended by section 5(2) of, and by Part I of Schedule 8 to, the Health and Social Security Act 1984 (c. 48) ("the 1984 Act"); section 17 was substituted by paragraph 2 of Schedule 3 to the 1984 Act; section 18 was amended by paragraph 38 of Schedule 1 to the 1980 Act and modified by S.I. 1985/39, article 7(2). back

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