NHS Redress (Wales) Measure 2008 (nawm 1)
1
NHS Redress (Wales) Measure 2008
2008 nawm 1
A MEASURE of the National Assembly for Wales to make provision about arrangements for redress in relation to liability in tort in connection with services provided as part of the health service in Wales; and for connected purposes.
This Measure, passed by the National Assembly for Wales on 6 May 2008 and approved by Her Majesty in Council on 9 July 2008, enacts the following provisions:—
1Power of Welsh Ministers to make regulations in respect of NHS redress
- (1) The Welsh Ministers may make provision by regulations for the purpose of enabling redress to be provided without recourse to civil proceedings in circumstances in which this section applies.
- (2) This section applies where under the law of England and Wales qualifying liability in tort on the part of a body or person mentioned in subsection (3) arises in connection with the provision of qualifying services in Wales or elsewhere as part of the health service in Wales.
- (3) The bodies and persons referred to in subsection (2) are—
- (a) an NHS Trust in Wales;
- (b) a Local Health Board;
- (c) a Special Health Authority;
- (d) the Welsh Ministers;
- (e) a body or person providing, or arranging for the provision of, services whose provision is the subject of arrangements with a body or person mentioned in paragraphs (a) to (d).
