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This Order may be cited as the National Blood Authority (Establishment and Constitution) Amendment Order 1994 and shall come into force on 1st April 1994.
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(1) The National Blood Authority (Establishment and Constitution) Order 1993 is amended in accordance with the following paragraphs of this Article.
(2) In Article 1(2), the definition of “the transfusion service” is omitted.
(3) In Article 3(2)—
(a) after sub-paragraph (a) there is inserted the following sub-paragraph—“
(aa) collecting, screening and processing blood and its constituents and supplying blood, plasma and other blood products for the purposes of the health service”;
(b) sub-paragraphs (f) and (g) are omitted;
(c) for sub-paragraph (h) there is substituted the following sub-paragraph—“
(h) the promotion, by advertisement and otherwise, of the giving of blood and its constituents for the purposes of the health service, with a view in particular to maintaining an adequate number of persons who are willing to give blood or its constituents for those purposes;”; and
(d) sub-paragraph (i) is omitted.
(4) In Article 6 the words from “Any right which” to “against the Authority” are designated as paragraph (1) and after that paragraph there are added the following paragraphs:—“
(2) Subject to paragraph (3) of this Article and except in so far as a Regional Health Authority and the Authority agree otherwise before 1st April 1994, all rights enforceable by or against a Regional Health Authority as respects the exercise of functions which become on that date functions exercisable by the Authority shall on and after that date instead be enforceable by or against the Authority.
(3) Nothing in paragraph (2) shall transfer an officer to the employment of the Authority (without prejudice to any notice served under the National Health Service (Transfer of Officers) (No.2) Regulations 1986).”.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health
Tom Sackville
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,
Department of Health
8th March 1994