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NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE ENGLAND AND WALES

Made 9th July 2002

Laid before Parliament 9th July 2002

Coming into force 1st August 2002

The Secretary of State for Health and the National Assembly for Wales, acting concurrently in exercise of powers conferred by sections 16(2) and 126(4) of, and paragraph 12 of Schedule 5 to, the National Health Service Act 1977^f1 and now vested in them and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations:

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f1: 1977 c. 49; section 16 was substituted by paragraph 9 of Schedule 4 to the Health Act 1999 (c. 8) (“the 1999 Act”); section 126(4) was amended by section 65(2) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19) (“the 1990 Act”) and by paragraph 37(6) of the 1999 Act; paragraph 12 of Schedule 5 was amended by article 7 of S.I. 1985/39, by paragraph 9 of Schedule 1 to the 1990 Act, by paragraph 60(e) of Schedule 1 to the Health Authorities Act 1995 (c. 17) and by paragraph 39(4) of Schedule 4 to the 1999 Act. See section 128(1), as amended by section 26(2)(g) and (i) of the 1990 Act, for the definitions of “prescribed” and “regulations”. The functions of the Secretary of State under sections 16(2) and 126(4) 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 (“the 1999 Order”) as amended by section 66(4) to (6) of the 1999 Act. Functions under these sections of the 1977 Act, in relation to the National Institute for Clinical Excellence, are, by their nature, exercisable concurrently by the Secretary of State and the National Assembly for Wales by virtue of article 2(c) of the 1999 Order.