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This Order is the seventh Commencement Order made under the Health and Social Care Act 2001 ("the 2001 Act") solely in relation to Wales.
Article 2 of the Order appoints 1 November 2004 as the day on which section 48, and sections 57 and 58 (in so far as they are not already in force), of the 2001 Act come into force in relation to Wales.
Section 48 inserts provisions into the Health Act 1999 which provide for the National Assembly for Wales to make staff transfer orders in connection with partnership arrangements between Welsh local authorities and NHS bodies made under the 1999 Act.
Section 57 empowers the Assembly to make regulations authorising or requiring Welsh local authorities to make direct payments instead of the direct provision of community care services or services for carers, and makes provision as to the effect of such regulations.
Section 58 inserts a new section 17A into the Children Act 1989 which empowers the Assembly to make regulations authorising or requiring Welsh local authorities to make direct payments instead of the direct provision of services under section 17 of the 1989 Act, and makes provision as to the effect of such regulations.
Article 2 of the Order also brings into force provisions of the 2001 Act that make amendments to, and repeal, other provisions of primary legislation in consequence of sections 57 and 58 of the 2001 Act.
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