# The NHS 24 (Scotland) Order 2001

S.S.I. 2001/137 · made 2 April 2001

This Order constitutes a Special Health Board for the whole of Scotland to be known as NHS 24 (“the Board”) (article 3). In accordance with article 1 the Order comes into force on 1st April 2001.

Made under: National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 (Section 2, Section 105)

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## Introductory text

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE
Made 2nd April 2001
Laid before the Scottish Parliament 3rd April 2001
Coming into force 6th April 2001
The Scottish Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 2(1)(b), (1A), (1B) and (1C) and 105(7) of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:

## 1 Citation and Commencement

This Order may be cited as the NHS 24 (Scotland) Order 2001 and shall come into force on 6th April 2001.

## 2 Interpretation

(1) For the purposes of this Order–
“the Act” means the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978;
“the Board” means the Special Health Board, to be known by the name of NHS 24, which is constituted by this Order.
(2) In this Order unless the context otherwise requires, a reference to an article or Schedule is to an article of, or the Schedule to, this Order and a reference to a paragraph is to a paragraph of the article in which the reference is made.

## 3 Constitution, name and area of the Board

There is hereby constituted a Special Health Board for the whole of Scotland to be known by the name of NHS 24.

## 4 Functions of the Board

(1) The Board shall exercise the following functions of the Scottish Ministers namely–
(a) functions in relation to providing advice, guidance and information on health and care services.
(b) functions specified in paragraph (2) subject, however, to any limitations there specified.
(2) The functions specified in this paragraph are as follows:–
(a) the power of the Scottish Ministers under section 16(1) of the Act to assist voluntary organisations whose activities include the provisions of a service similar or related to a service provided under the Act;
(b) the power of the Scottish Ministers under section 16B of the Act to give financial assistance to voluntary organisations limited to assistance to such organisations whose activities consist of or include the provision of services similar to services provided by the Board or for the provision of which the Board is under a duty to make arrangements by virtue of the Act and the assistance so given is given on such terms and conditions as the Scottish Ministers might determine;
(c) the duty of the Scottish Ministers under section 36(1) of the Act to provide throughout Scotland, to such extent as the Board considers necessary to meet all reasonable requirements, accommodation and associated services;
(d) the duty of the Scottish Ministers under section 37 of the Act to make arrangements to such extent as the Board considers necessary to meet all reasonable requirements for the purposes of the prevention of illness, the care of persons suffering from illness and the after-care of such persons;
(e) the duty of the Scottish Ministers under section 41 of the Act to such extent as the Board considers necessary to make arrangements for the giving of advice on contraception;
(f) the power of the Scottish Ministers under section 42 of the Act to disseminate information relating to the promotion and maintenance of health and the prevention of illness;
(g) the duty of the Scottish Ministers under section 47 to make available such facilities as appear to the Board to be reasonably necessary for undergraduate and post-graduate clinical teaching and research and for the education and training of persons providing or intending to provide services under the Act and to conduct or assist by grants or otherwise under that section research into any matters relating to the causation, prevention, diagnosis or treatment of illness, or into other matters relating to the health service;
(h) the power of the Scottish Ministers under section 48 of the Act to provide on such terms and conditions as may be agreed residential accommodation for officers employed for the purposes of any functions of the Board under the Act, including residential and practice accommodation for medical and dental practitioners;
(i) the powers of the Scottish Ministers under section 79(1) of the Act to take on lease or to purchase moveable property and land which is required for the purposes of the Board and to use for those purposes and manage any heritable or moveable property so acquired;
(j) the power of the Scottish Ministers under paragraph 4 of Schedule 1 to the Act, as applied in relation to the Board by article 5, to pay remuneration to the Chairman of the Board and to such other members thereof as may be prescribed so, however, that this sub-paragraph shall not be construed as extending to the power to determine the remuneration or to prescribe the members to whom it may be paid;
(k) the power of the Scottish Ministers under paragraph 13 of Schedule 1 to the Act, as applied in relation to the Board by article 5, to pay to members of the Board, and any committees and sub-committees thereof, travelling and other allowances so however, that this sub-paragraph shall not be construed as extending to the power to determine the amount of such allowances.
(3) In exercising any functions of the Scottish Ministers to acquire, use, manage or dispose of land the Board shall ensure–
(a) that any instrument in connection with the exercise of those functions is in the name of the Scottish Ministers and not that of the Board; and
(b) that, where any such instrument requires to be executed on behalf of the Scottish Ministers and it is not executed in accordance with section 1(8) of the Reorganisation of Offices (Scotland) Act 1939, it is executed on their behalf in accordance with Schedule 2, paragraph 6 to the Requirements of Writing (Scotland) Act 1995.
(4) Nothing in this Order shall prevent or restrict from exercising any function under the Act–
(a) the Scottish Ministers;
(b) any Health Board;
(c) any other Special Health Board; or
(d) the Common Services Agency.

## 5 Applications of Enactments

(1) Each of the enactments specified in column 1 of each Part of the Schedule (the subject matter of which is described generally in column 2) shall apply in relation to the Board as it applies in relation to Health Boards subject, however, to the modifications and limitations (if any) specified opposite thereto in column 3 and to paragraph (2).
(2) The enactments which are applied in relation to the Board by virtue of paragraph (1) are so applied only for the purposes of the exercise by the Board of the functions conferred on it by this Order.

## Signature

SUSAN C DEACON
A member of the Scottish Executive
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
2nd April 2001

## Schedule: ENACTMENTS APPLIED TO THE BOARD

## I THE ACT

Column 1
Column 2
Column 3
Enactment
Nature of Provision
Modifications and Limitations (where applicable)
In the Act–
In Part I
In Section 2–
Health Boards
Sub section (3)
Variation of area and functions of Health Board
Sub section (4)
Provisions incidental to variation of area or functions of Health Boards
Sub section (5)
Health Boards to act in accordance with regulations or directions
Sub section (8)
Health Board to act as principal
In Section 10–
Common Services Agency
Sub section (4)
Power to provide that functions of Health Boards may be referred to the Agency
Section 13
Co-operation between Health Boards and other Authorities
Section 13A
Co-operation in planning of services for disabled persons, the elderly and others
Section 17A
Power to enter into arrangements with NHS bodies for the provision of goods and services (“NHS contracts”)
In Part IV
Section 77
Default powers
In Part V
In Section 79–
Sub section (1A)
Power of Scottish Ministers to dispose of land
Sub section (3)
Power to acquire moveable property on behalf of the Scottish Ministers
In Section 83–
Sub section (1)
Power to hold property on trust
Section 84
Power to trustees to make payments to Health Boards
Section 84A
Power to raise money and property by appeals, collections and other similar activities
Section 85AA
Means of meeting expenditure of Health Boards out of public funds
In Section 85–
Expenses of certain bodies
Sub section (1)
Payment of expenses of certain bodies
Sub section (2)
Date of allotment
Sub section (3)
Power to make directions to bodies listed in sub section(1)
Sub section (4)
Conditions subject to which payments shall be made
In Section 85A–
Sub section (1)
Duty of bodies referred to in section 85(1) as regards expenditure
Sub section (3)
Power to make directions in relation to duty under sub-section (1)
Sub section (4)
Disregard for the purposes of the section of certain trust funds
Section 85B
Power to make provision for meeting losses and liabilities etc of certain health service bodies
Section 86
Provision in relation to the keeping and auditing of accounts, to their submission to the Scottish Ministers
Section 87
Power to make regulations as to financial arrangements of health service bodies
In Part VII–
Section 101
Protection of Health Boards
In Schedule 1–
Health Boards
Paragraph 1
Health Boards to be bodies corporate and have a common seal
Paragraph 2
Appointment of Chairman and members
Paragraph 4
Payment of remuneration to the Chairman and such members of Health Boards as may be prescribed
Paragraph 5
Employment of officers and servants
Paragraph 5A
Power to make regulations as to the date of appointment
Paragraph 6
Power to make regulations as to method of appointment, qualifications, remuneration and conditions of service of officers and servants
Paragraph 7
Officers and servants employed in accordance with regulations and directions
Paragraph 7A
Power to make regulations providing for transfer of officers and servants
Paragraph 7B
Directions to Health Boards to place officers or servants at disposal of other bodies
Paragraph 11
Power to make regulations as to appointment, committees and procedure
Paragraph 11A
Subscription to funds of other bodies
Paragraph 12
Proceedings not to be invalidated by vacancies
Paragraph 13
Payment to members of a Health Board, the committees and sub-committees thereof of travelling and other allowances, including compensation for loss of remunerative time
The words “, including compensation for loss of remunerative time,” shall be omitted
Paragraph 14
Allowances not payable except in circumstances determined by the Scottish Ministers
Paragraph 15
Time and method of payment of allowances
In Schedule 5–
Common Services Agency
Paragraph 7B
Power to make regulations providing for the transfer of officers and servants
Paragraph 7C
Power to make directions as to placing of staff with other bodies

## II ACTS OTHER THAN THE ACT

Column 1
Column 2
Column 3
Enactment
Nature of Provision
Modifications and Limitations (where applicable)
The Public Bodies (Admission to Meetings) Act 1960
Admission of the public to meetings
Health and Medicines Act 1988
Section 7(1)-(8)
Extension of powers of Scottish Ministers for financing the Health Service
Health Service Commissioners Act 1993
Where they have delegated any function relating to the acquisition, management or disposal of land, power of the Scottish Ministers to authorise any officer of a Health Board to execute an instrument on their behalf
Requirements of Writing (Scotland) Act 1995 Schedule 2, paragraph 6
Provisions for investigations by the Health Service Commissioner for Scotland

## III ENACTMENTS OTHER THAN ACTS OF PARLIAMENT

Column 1
Column 2
Column 3
Enactment
Nature of Provision
Modifications and Limitations (where applicable)
The National Health Service (Professions Supplementary to Medicine) (Scotland) Regulations 1974
Prohibits employment for provision of services under the National Health Service of certain health professions unless they are registered under the Professions Supplementary to Medicine Act 1960
The National Health Service (Financial Provisions) (Scotland) Regulations 1974
Preparation of estimates of income and expenditure and accounts of Health Boards and related matters of a financial nature
Limited so as to exclude the application of any provisions relative to Local Health Councils or the Common Services Agency
The National Health Service (Food Premises) (Scotland) Regulations 1987
Health Authorities (including Health Boards) to be treated for the purpose of food legislation (as defined in the Regulations) as both owners and occupiers of premises used by them
The National Health Service (Remuneration and Conditions of Service) (Scotland) Regulations 1991
The determination of remuneration and conditions of service of officers of Health Boards
The Health Boards (Membership and Procedure) (No 2) Regulations 1991
Provision as to the membership and procedure to be applied by Health Boards
Limited so as to exclude the application of regulation 6(1)(a)
The National Health Service (Appointment of Consultants) (Scotland) Regulations 1993
Appointment as an officer of a Health Board of any registered medical or dental practitioner to the post of consultant or of any registered medical practitioner to the post of community medicine specialist

## Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order constitutes a Special Health Board for the whole of Scotland to be known as NHS 24 (“the Board”) (article 3). In accordance with article 1 the Order comes into force on 1st April 2001.
Article 4 of the Order confers on the Board functions in relation to providing advice, guidance and information on health and care services.
Article 5 and the Schedule apply to the Board various provisions in enactments which apply to Health Boards in general. These include provisions as to funding, the keeping and auditing of accounts and the appointment and remuneration of Board members and staff. Provisions in certain other Acts of Parliament relevant to Health Boards are also applied as are provisions in various sets of Regulations.

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