Statutory Instrument 1999 No. 2218

The National Institute for Clinical Excellence (Amendment) Regulations 1999

(The document as of February, 2008)

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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

1999 No. 2218

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES

The National Institute for Clinical Excellence (Amendment) Regulations 1999

	Made	5th August 1999
	Laid before Parliament	6th August 1999
	Coming into force	27th August 1999

The Secretary of State for Health in exercise of powers conferred on him by section 126(4) of, and paragraphs 10 and 12 of Schedule 5 to, the National Health Service Act 1977[1] and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement
    1.These Regulations may be cited as the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (Amendment) Regulations 1999 and shall come into force on 27th August 1999.

Amendment of the National Institute for Clinical Excellence Regulations 1999
    2.The National Institute for Clinical Excellence Regulations 1999[2] are amended as follows - 

(a) in regulation 1(2), in the definition of "the Act", for "1997" there is substituted "1977";

(b) in regulation 4(1), for the word "should" there is substituted the word "shall".

Frank Dobson
Secretary of State for Health

5th August 1999

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EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the National Institute for Clinical Excellence Regulations 1999 to correct minor errors in the wording of regulation 1(2) (in the definition of "the Act") and regulation 4(1) (appointment of Chief Officers).

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Notes:

[1] 1977 c.49. Section 126(4) was amended by section 65(2) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c.19) ("the 1990 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 and by paragraph 60(e) of Schedule 1 to the Health Authorities Act 1995 (c.17). See section 128(1), as amended by section 26(2)(g) and (i) of the 1990 Act, for the definitions of "prescribed" and "regulations". Functions under these sections of the 1977 Act, in relation to the National Institute for Clinical Excellence, are, by their nature, exercisable concurrently with the Secretary of State by virtue of article 2(c) of the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 S.I. 1999/672.back

[2] S.I. 1999/260.back

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