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These regulations may be cited as the National Health Service Functions (Amendment of Directions to Authorities) Regulations 1987 and shall come into force on 1st April 1987.
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(1) In the National Health Service Functions (Directions to Authorities and Administration Arrangements) Regulations 1982 regulation 3(e) (functions in the National Health Service Act 1977 to be exercisable by Regional Health Authorities) shall be amended as follows:—
(a) for head (xxviii) there shall be substituted the following—“
(xxviii) section 63, with respect to authorising hospital accommodation described in the section to be made available, determining the extent to which it is to be made available, determining the charges for part of its cost, recovering those charges, and allowing deductions from the amount due during periods when it is temporarily vacated;”
(b) in head (xxix) for the reference to“section 65(2)” there shall be substituted a reference to“section 65(2) and (5)” and after the words“resident patients” there shall be added the words“and allowing in respect of that treatment deductions from the amount due during periods when the accommodation is temporarily vacated;”
(c) for head (xxx) there shall be substituted the following—“
(xxx) section 65(1), (3) and (4) and section 66, with respect to determining under those provisions the charges to be paid for accommodation and services authorised by the Secretary of State to be made available under sections 65(1) and 66(1) and with respect to recovering those charges;”
(2) In the Authorities for London Post-Graduate Teaching Hospitals Regulations 1982, regulation 6(2)(c) (functions under the National Health Service Act 1977 to be exercisable by the Authorities) shall be amended as follows:—
(a) for head (xxvii) there shall be substituted the following—“
(xxvii) section 63, with respect to authorising the hospital accommodation described in the section to be made available, determining the extent to which it is to be made available, determining the charges for part of its cost, recovering those charges, and allowing deductions from the amount due during periods when it is temporarily vacated;”
(b) in head (xxix) for the reference to“section 65(2)” there shall be substituted a reference to“section 65(2) and (5)” and after the words“resident patients” there shall be added the words“and allowing in respect of that treatment deductions from the amount due during periods when the accommodation is temporarily vacated;”
(c) for head (xxx) there shall be substituted the following—“
(xxx) section 65(1), (3) and (4) and section 66, with respect to determining under those provisions the charges to be paid for accommodation and services authorised by the Secretary of State to be made available under sections 65(1) and 66(1), and with respect to recovering those charges;”
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Services.
Tony Newton
Minister of State,
Department of Health and Social Security
20th February 1987