# The National Health Service Functions (Directions to Authorities and Administration Arrangements) Amendment Regulations 1994

S.I. 1994/590 · made 11 March 1994

These Regulations amend the National Health Service Functions (Directions to Authorities and Administration Arrangements) Regulations 1991. They remove from the list of the Secretary of State’s health service functions which are exercisable by Regional Health Authorities in England her functions under section 25(a) of the National Health Service Act 1977 (which relates to the supply of human blood) and make consequential amendments.

Made under: National Health Service Act 1977 (Section 13, Section 14, Section 17, Section 18, Section 126)

## Introductory text

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES
Made 11th March 1994
Laid before Parliament 11th March 1994
Coming into force 1st April 1994
The Secretary of State for Health, as respects England, and the Secretary of State for Wales, as respects Wales, in exercise of powers conferred by sections 13, 14(2), 17(1), 18(1) and 126(4) and (5) of the National Health Service Act 1977 and of all other powers enabling them to do so hereby make the following Regulations:—

## 1 Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service Functions (Directions to Authorities and Administration Arrangements) Amendment Regulations 1994 and shall come into force on 1st April 1994.

## 2 Amendment of Regulations

The National Health Service Functions (Directions to Authorities and Administration Arrangements) Regulations 1991 are amended as follows:—
(a) in regulation 2(1), in the definition of “the specified health service functions”, there is added at the end “, and for the purposes of regulations 7 and 8 includes functions under section 25 of the Act (making available supplies of human blood) other than under paragraphs (b) and (c) of that section”;
(b) in regulation 5—
(i) in paragraph (2) sub-paragraph (b) is omitted, and
(ii) in paragraph (3) the words “or of the function of determining charges for the supply of human blood under section 25 of the Act” are omitted; and
(c) in the Schedule the entry in column 1 “section 25 other than paragraphs (b) and (c)” and the entry in column 2 which relates to it are omitted.

## 3 Revocation

In regulation 2 of the National Health Service Functions (Administration Arrangements and Amendment of Directions) Regulations 1992 paragraph (b) is revoked so far as it relates to the insertion of the words omitted by regulation 2(b)(ii) of these Regulations.

## Signature

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health
Tom Sackville
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,
Department of Health
8th March 1994
John Redwood
Secretary of State for Wales
11th March 1994

## Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the National Health Service Functions (Directions to Authorities and Administration Arrangements) Regulations 1991. They remove from the list of the Secretary of State’s health service functions which are exercisable by Regional Health Authorities in England her functions under section 25(a) of the National Health Service Act 1977 (which relates to the supply of human blood) and make consequential amendments.

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