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The Health and Social Care Act 2012 (Commencement No. 10) Order 2016

S.I. 2016/81 · Made 27 January 2016

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Health Care And Associated Professions

Made 27th January 2016

The Secretary of State for Health makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 306 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012f1.

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

2012 c. 7.

Contents

  1. 1Citation
  2. 2Commencement of provisions
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation

This Order may be cited as the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (Commencement No. 10) Order 2016.

2Commencement of provisions

The day appointed for the coming into forcef1 of section 223(4) of the Health and Social Care Act 2012 is 1st day of February 2016.

Signature

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health.

Ben Gummer

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,

Department of Health

27th January 2016

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order brings into force section 223(4) of the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c.7) (“the Act”). It is the tenth such Order to be made under the Act.

Article 2 brings into force section 223(4) of the Act, which amends section 26A of the National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 (c. 17) (“the 2002 Act”) by inserting a new subsection (subsection (2A)). New subsection (2A) gives the Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care (“the Authority”) the power to charge for advice, reports or investigations it has been commissioned to carry out by the Secretary of State, the Welsh Ministers, the Scottish Ministers or a relevant Northern Ireland department.

A full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as this Order itself has no impact on the private sector or civil society organisations. A full Impact Assessment has been produced in relation to the provisions of the Act, including provisions that are commenced by this Order, and a copy is available at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/health-and-social-care-bill-2011-combined-impact-assessments.