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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Primary Care Trusts (Functions) (England) Amendment Regulations 2002 and shall come into force on 1st April 2002.
(2) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Primary Care Trusts (Functions) (England) Regulations 2000.
(3) These Regulations apply in relation to Health Authorities and Primary Care Trusts established for areas in England only.
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In Regulation 2(1) of the principal Regulations (interpretation) the definition of “population screening programme” shall be deleted.
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(1) Regulation 3 of the principal Regulations (functions to be exercised by Primary Care Trusts) shall be amended as follows.
(2) Paragraph (6) shall be deleted.
(3) For paragraph (7) there shall be substituted—“
(7) The function under section 5(2)(d) of the Act is to be exercisable by a Primary Care Trust only to the extent that it does not consist of establishing or funding research ethics committees.”.
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Paragraph (2) of Regulation 4 of the principal Regulations (functions not to be exercisable by Primary Care Trusts) shall be deleted.
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(1) Schedule 3 to the principal Regulations (regulations conferring functions to be exercisable by Primary Care Trusts) shall be amended as follows.
(2) In the entry relating to the National Health Service (General Medical Services) Regulations 1992 before “regulations 34 and 34A” there shall be inserted—“
Part 3 (practice vacancies) Fully”.
(3) At the end there shall be added—“
The National Health Service (Functions of Health Authorities) (England) (Support of Provision of Services and Appraisal) Regulations 2002 Fully”.
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(1) Schedule 4 to the principal Regulations (delegable functions which are not to be exercised by a Primary Care Trust) shall be amended as follows.
(2) The following entries shall be deleted—
(a) the entry relating to the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974;
(b) the entry relating to section 28(1), (2), (5) and (6) of the Health Act 1999.
(3) For the entry relating to the Mental Health Act 1983, there shall be substituted—“
Mental Health Act 1983– section 12(2) Approving registered medical practitioners as having special experience in the diagnosis or treatment of mental disorder”.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State
John Hutton
Minister of State,
Department of Health
8th March 2002