The National Health Service (Functions of Health Authorities and Administration Arrangements) Amendment Regulations 2000

• Citation: S.I. 2000/267
• Sections: 2

Section 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (Functions of Health Authorities and Administration Arrangements) Amendment Regulations 2000 and shall come into force on 1st April 2000.

(2) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations ” means the National Health Service (Functions of Health Authorities and Administration Arrangements) Regulations 1996 .

Section 2 Amendment of principal Regulations

(1) The principal Regulations are amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

(2) In regulation 4 (restrictions on the exercise of functions by Health Authorities) after paragraph (3) there is inserted the following paragraph–

(3A) In exercising the functions of the Secretary of State under section 4 of the Act a Health Authority may enter into an NHS contract for the provision of high security psychiatric services with the following providers only–

(a) Ashworth Hospital Authority , Broadmoor Hospital Authority or Rampton Hospital Authority or

(b) an NHS trust approved by the Secretary of State under paragraph 10(2) and (3) of Schedule 2 to the 1990 Act

and may not arrange with any other person or body (including voluntary organisations) for that person or body to provide such services.

(3) In Schedule 1 (enactments conferring functions exercisable by Health Authorities), in column (1) (enactment), under the heading “The Act”, after the words “ section 3(1)(f)” there shall be inserted the words “section 4” and correspondingly in column (2) (subject matter) there shall be inserted the words “Providing high security psychiatric services”.