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The National Health Service Commissioning Board and Clinical Commissioning Groups (Responsibilities and Standing Rules) (Amendment) Regulations 2017

S.I. 2017/296 · Made 1 March 2017

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National Health Service, England

Made 1st March 2017

Laid before Parliament 9th March 2017

Coming into force 1st April 2017

The Secretary of State for Health makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 3B(1) and 272(7)(a) and (b) of the National Health Service Act 2006f1.

In accordance with section 3B(4) of that Act, the Secretary of State obtained appropriate advice and consulted the National Health Service Commissioning Board before deciding to make these Regulations.

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

2006 c.41. Section 3B of the National Health Service Act 2006 (“the 2006 Act”) was inserted by section 15 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012. By virtue of section 271(1) of the 2006 Act, the powers exercised in making these Regulations are exercisable by the Secretary of State in relation to England only. See section 275(1) of the 2006 Act for the definitions of “prescribed” and “regulations”.

Contents

  1. 1Citation and commencement
  2. 2Further service to be commissioned by the Board
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service Commissioning Board and Clinical Commissioning Groups (Responsibilities and Standing Rules) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 and come into force on 1st April 2017.

2Further service to be commissioned by the Board

(1)

Schedule 4 (services for rare and very rare conditions) to the National Health Service Commissioning Board and Clinical Commissioning Groups (Responsibilities and Standing Rules) Regulations 2012f1 is amended as follows.

(2)

After paragraph 140A, insert—

“140B.

Uterine transplantation services.”.

Signature

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health.

O’Shaughnessy

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,

Department of Health

1st March 2017

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend Schedule 4 to the National Health Service Commissioning Board and Clinical Commissioning Groups (Responsibilities and Standing Rules) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/2996) (“the principal Regulations”). Schedule 4 to the principal Regulations specifies services for rare and very rare conditions which the National Health Service Commissioning Board (“the Board”) must arrange for the provision of, as part of the health service.

Regulation 2 amends Schedule 4 to give effect to the revised commissioning responsibilities for the Board pursuant to regulations 7, 10 and 11 of the principal Regulations.

This amendment follows advice received, and consultation with the Board, pursuant to the statutory procedures set out in section 3B(4) of the National Health Service Act 2006.

No impact assessment has been produced for these Regulations as they have no impact on the private sector and civil society organisations, and no significant effect on the public sector.