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NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND

Made 23rd October 1999

Laid before Parliament 25th October 1999

Coming into force 16th November 1999

The Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of powers conferred on him by section 126(4) of, and paragraph 2(d) of Schedule 7 to, the National Health Service Act 1977^f1, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

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f1: 1977 c. 49. Section 126(4) is amended by paragraph 37(6) of Schedule 4 to the Health Act 1999 (c. 8); paragraph 2(d) of Schedule 7 was inserted by paragraph 15 of Schedule 3 to the Health and Social Security Act 1984 (c. 48) and was amended by paragraph 62(a) of Schedule 1 to the Health Authorities Act 1995 (c. 17). See section 128(1), as amended by section 26(2)(g) and (i) of the 1990 Act, for the definitions of “prescribed” and “regulations”. The functions of the Secretary of State under these provisions of the 1977 Act 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.