Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1994
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1994/429 |
1994 No. 429 (N.I. 2)
NORTHERN IRELAND
The Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1994
Made 24th February 1994
Coming into operation in accordance with Article 1(2) and (3)
At the Court of Saint James, the 24th day of February 1994
Present,
The Counsellors of State in Council
Whereas Her Majesty, in pursuance of the Regency Acts 1937 to 1953, was pleased, by Letters Patent dated the 16th day of February 1994, to delegate to the six Counsellors of State therein named or any two or more of them full power and authority during the period of Her Majesty’s absence from the United Kingdom to summon and hold on Her Majesty’s behalf Her Privy Council and to signify thereat Her Majesty’s approval for anything for which Her Majesty’s approval in Council is required:
And whereas a draft of this Order has been approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament:
Now, therefore, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother and His Royal Highness The Prince Edward, being authorised thereto by the said Letters Patent, and in pursuance of the powers conferred by paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to the Northern Ireland Act 19741, and all other powers enabling Her Majesty, and by and with the advice of Her Majesty’s Privy Council, do on Her Majesty’s behalf order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:—
Title and commencement
1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1994.
(2) Except as provided by paragraph (3), this Order shall come into operation on 1st March 1994.
(3) Articles 5 to 7 and Schedules 1 and 2 shall come into operation on 1st April 1994.
Interpretation
2.—(1) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 19542shall apply to Article 1 and the following provisions of this Order as it applies to a Measure of the Northern Ireland Assembly.
(2) Article 2(2) of the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 19723(interpretation) shall apply for the purposes of this Order as it applies for the purposes of that Order.
Certain functions of Health and Social Services Boards to be exercisable on their behalf by HSS trusts
3.—(1) A Health and Social Services Board may, with the approval of the Department, by instrument in writing under seal provide for such relevant functions of the Board as are specified to be exercisable, in relation to the operational area of a specified HSS trust, by that HSS trust on behalf of the Board.
(2) In this Article and Article 4—
“authorisation” means an instrument executed under paragraph (1);
“relevant functions”, in relation to a Health and Social Services Board, means functions of the Board under any statutory provision prescribed for the purposes of this Article by regulations made by the Department subject to negative resolution;
“specified” means specified in the authorisation;
“the 1991 Order” means the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 19914;
and references in those Articles to functions of a Health and Social Services Board include references to functions exercisable by a Board on behalf of the Department.
(3) Section 17(2) of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 19545applies to an authorisation as if it were a statutory instrument; and references in this Article and Article 4 to an authorisation include references to an amendment or revocation of an authorisation.
(4) An authorisation shall come into operation on such date, not being a date earlier than 1st April 1994, as may be specified.
(5) An authorisation may contain such transitional provisions as the Health and Social Services Board thinks fit, including in particular provisions—
(a)
(a) for specified acts done by or in relation to the Board or an HSS trust at any time before the authorisation comes into operation to have effect after that time for specified purposes as if done by or in relation to the other of those two bodies;
(b)
(b) for any reference to the Board or an HSS trust in any statutory provision, statutory document (within the meaning of section 1(e) of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954) or order or direction of a court to have effect for specified purposes as a reference to the other of those two bodies;
and any such transitional provisions shall for such purposes have effect in relation to such acts, statutory provisions, statutory documents, orders or directions.
(6) Without prejudice to the operation of Article 17 of the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 19726, the Department—
(a)
(a) may direct a Health and Social Services Board to execute an authorisation in such terms as the Department may direct;
(b)
(b) shall give directions to a Health and Social Services Board as to the notification and publication by the Board of authorisations.
(7) An HSS trust shall, notwithstanding that it is exercising functions on behalf of a Health and Social Services Board by virtue of an authorisation for the time being in operation under this Article, be entitled to enforce any rights acquired and shall be liable in respect of any liabilities incurred (including any liabilities in tort) in the exercise of those functions in all respects as if it were acting as a principal, and all proceedings for the enforcement of such rights or liabilities shall be brought by or against the HSS trust in its own name.
(8) In Article 10(1) of the 1991 Order after the words “HSS trusts),” there shall be inserted the words “to do all or any of the following, namely” and at the end there shall be added
“or
(c)
(c) to exercise, on behalf of Health and Social Services Boards, such functions as are so exercisable by virtue of authorisations for the time being in operation under Article 3(1) of the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1994.”.
(9) In Schedule 3 to the 1991 Order after paragraph 3 there shall be inserted—
S-3A “3A An order made in relation to an HSS trust shall, if the trust is to exercise functions on behalf of a Health and Social Services Board by virtue of an authorisation under Article 3(1) of the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1994, specify the operational area of the trust, that is to say, the area in relation to which those functions are to be exercisable.”.
(10) References in any other statutory provision to functions of an HSS trust include references to functions exercisable by an HSS trust on behalf of a Health and Social Services Board by virtue of an authorisation.
(11) The Department may by regulations make such amendments to any statutory provision (including those mentioned in Schedule 1) as appear to the Department to be necessary or expedient to facilitate, or to be otherwise consequential on, the exercise by HSS trusts of relevant functions of Health and Social Services Boards by virtue of authorisations executed under this Article.
(12) Regulations under paragraph (11) which amend only statutory instruments shall be subject to negative resolution and all other regulations under that paragraph shall be subject to affirmative resolution.
Schemes for exercise by HSS trusts of functions on behalf of Health and Social Services Boards
4.—(1) An HSS trust shall submit to a Health and Social Services Board a scheme for the exercise by the trust on behalf of the Board of relevant functions which are, or are proposed to become, so exercisable by the trust by virtue of an authorisation.
(2) A Health and Social Services Board may approve a scheme submitted to it by an HSS trust under paragraph (1), either without modifications or with such modifications as may be agreed with the trust.
(3) A Health and Social Services Board shall submit a scheme approved by it under paragraph (2) to the Department.
(4) The Department may approve a scheme submitted to it under paragraph (3), either without modifications or with such modifications as may be agreed with the Health and Social Services Board and the HSS trust concerned.
(5) An HSS trust shall give effect to any scheme approved by the Department under paragraph (4).
(6) An HSS trust may at any time, and shall if so requested by a Health and Social Services Board on whose behalf any relevant functions are exercisable by the trust by virtue of an authorisation, submit a new scheme under this Article to the Board and paragraphs (2) to (5) shall apply to any such new scheme as they apply to a scheme submitted under paragraph (1).
Audit
5. For Article 92 of the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 19727there shall be substituted the following Articles—
“Power of Department to give directions as to audit of accounts
92. The Department may give directions generally with respect to the audit of accounts under Article 90(2)(a) or (5)(a) or Article 91(1)(a).
Powers and duties of auditor in auditing accounts
92A.—(1) This Article applies to an auditor appointed by the Department in auditing accounts required to be audited under Article 90(2)(a) or (5)(a) or Article 91(1)(a).
(2) The auditor shall by examination of the accounts and otherwise satisfy himself—
(a)
(a) that the accounts are in the form directed by the Department and comply with all requirements imposed by or under any statutory provision;
(b)
(b) that proper practices have been observed in the compilation of the accounts; and
(c)
(c) that the body whose accounts are being audited has made proper arrangements for securing economy, efficiency and effectiveness in its use of resources.
(3) The auditor shall comply with any directions under Article 92.
(4) The auditor shall consider whether, in the public interest, he should make a report on any matter coming to his notice in the course of the audit in...
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