Introductory text

National Health Service, England

Made 16th December 2014

Laid before Parliament 9th January 2015

Coming into force 1st April 2015

The Secretary of State for Health makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 13A(9) and 272(7) and (8) of the National Health Service Act 2006^f1.

In accordance with section 13A(1) of that Act, the Secretary of State has published and laid before Parliament the mandate^f2.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 2006 c.41 (the “2006 Act”). Section 13A was inserted by s.23 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c.7) (the “2012 Act”). By virtue of s.271(1) of the 2006 Act, the powers exercised in making these Regulations are exercisable by the Secretary of State only in relation to England. See section 275(1) for the definition of “regulations”.
f2: See section 13A(1) for the meaning of “mandate”.