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Statutory Instruments
NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES
Made
4th March 1994
Laid before Parliament
7th March 1994
Coming into force
1st April 1994
The Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of powers conferred on her by section 7(1A) of the National Health Service Act 1977(1) hereby makes the following Order:-
1. This Order may be cited as the National Health Service Act 1977 (Composition of Medical Practices Committee) Modification Order 1994 and shall come into force on 1st April 1994.
2. In section 7(1) of the National Health Service Act 1977 (composition of Medical Practices Committee) paragraph (b) shall be modified(2) by substituting "five of the" for "the chairman and five of the other".
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health
Brian Mawhinney
Minister of State,
Department of Health
4th March 1994
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order further modifies section 7(1)(b) of the National Health Service Act 1977. Section 7(1) specifies the composition of the Medical Practices Committee. The Committee exercises functions under Part II of that Act in connection with the distribution of registered medical practitioners providing general medical services pursuant to that Part. This Order removes the requirement that the chairman of the Committee be a registered medical practitioner.
1977 c. 49. Subsection (1A) was inserted into section 7 by section 22(3) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19).
Paragraph (b) was modified by the National Health Service Act 1977 (Composition of Medical Practices Committee) Modification Order 1993 (S.I. 1993/887).
