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

• Citation: S.I. 2000/1035 (W.)
• Sections: 2

Section 1 Citation, commencement, interpretation and application

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (Functions of Health Authorities and Administration Arrangements)(Wales) 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 .

(3) These Regulations shall apply to Wales only.

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 (3A) there is inserted the following paragraph—

(3B) –

(1) In exercising the functions of the National Assembly for Wales under section 4 of the Act a Health Authority in Wales 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 approved NHS trust

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

(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(b) “an approved NHS trust” means a trust approved under paragraph 10(2) and (3) of Schedule 2 to the 1990 Act _

(a) in Wales, by the National Assembly for Wales, and

(b) in England, by the Secretary of State.

(3) The amendments to Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations made by the National Health Service (Functions of Health Authorities and Administration Arrangements) Amendment Regulations 2000 shall have effect in relation to Wales.