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1977 (c.49). Section 121 was amended by the Health and Medicines Act 1988 (c.49), section 7(12) and (14). Section 126(4) was amended by the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c.19) (“the 1990”), section 65(2); the Health Act 1999 (c.8), section 65(1) and paragraphs 4 and 37(1) and (6) of Schedule 4; the Health and Social Care Act 2001 (c.15), section 67(1) and paragraph 5(1) and (13)(b), Part 1, of Schedule 5; the National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 (c.17), sections 6(3)(c) and 37(1) and paragraphs 1 and 10(a) of Schedule 8; the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (c.43), section 184 and paragraphs 7 and 38 of Schedule 11 and section 196 and Part 4 of Schedule 14. The functions of the Secretary of State under these provisions 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). See section 128(1) of the National Health Service Act 1977, as amended by section 26 of the 1990 Act, for the meaning of “prescribed” and “regulations”.