Section 2 Short title, commencement and extent.
(1)
This Act may be cited as the Hospital Complaints Procedure Act 1985.
C1(2)
This Act shall come into force on such day as the Secretary of State may by order made by statutory instrument appoint.
(3)
This Act does not extend to Northern Ireland.
Annotations
Modifications
- C1
Power of appointment conferred by s. 2(2) fully exercised (11.7.1989): 1989/1191
Notes on the whole Act
Textual amendments
- F1
Act repealed (S.) (1.4.2012) by Patient Rights (Scotland) Act 2011 (asp 5), ss. 16, 26(3) (with ss. 18(3), 20); S.S.I. 2012/35, art. 2(a)