The Health and Social Care Act 2012 (Commencement No. 10) Order 2016

Made: 27th January 2016

The Secretary of State for Health makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 306 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012[^f00001].

Citation

1

This Order may be cited as the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (Commencement No. 10) Order 2016.

Commencement of provisions

2

The day appointed for the coming into force[^f00002] of section 223(4) of the Health and Social Care Act 2012 is 1st day of February 2016.

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health.

Ben Gummer — Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, — Department of Health — 27th January 2016

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order brings into force section 223(4) of the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c.7) (“the Act”). It is the tenth such Order to be made under the Act.

Article 2 brings into force section 223(4) of the Act, which amends section 26A of the National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act [2002 (c. 17)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2002/17) (“the 2002 Act”) by inserting a new subsection (subsection (2A)). New subsection (2A) gives the Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care (“the Authority”) the power to charge for advice, reports or investigations it has been commissioned to carry out by the Secretary of State, the Welsh Ministers, the Scottish Ministers or a relevant Northern Ireland department.

A full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as this Order itself has no impact on the private sector or civil society organisations. A full Impact Assessment has been produced in relation to the provisions of the Act, including provisions that are commenced by this Order, and a copy is available at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/health-and-social-care-bill-2011-combined-impact-assessments.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 2012 c. 7.

[^f00002]: See section 306(1) of the Health and Social Care Act (c. 7) (“the Act”) for the provisions which came into force on the day the Act was passed, and S.I. 2012/1319 (C. 47), 2012/1831 (C. 71), 2012/2657 (C. 107), 2013/160 (C. 9), 2013/671 (C. 28), 2013/2896 (C. 117), 2014/39 (C. 2), 2014/1454 (C. 57) and 2015/409 (C. 23) for provisions of the Act which came into force by Order on earlier dates.