Part 1: Health Service in England: Integration, Collaboration and Other Changes Patient Choice and Provider Selection Section 80: Procurement and patient choice: consequential amendments etc
Subsection (1) removes the reference to the existing regulation making powers on procurement, patient choice and competition from section 12E of the NHS Act 2006 (Secretary of State’s duty as respects variation in provision of health services) and replaces this with the new procurement regulation making power (section 12ZB). Subsection (1) also amends section 272 of the NHS Act 2006 to provide that regulations made under the new section 12ZB will be subject to the draft affirmative procedure.
	Subsection (2) removes the existing regulation making powers on procurement, patient choice and competition from the 2012 Act.
	Subsection (3) omits paragraph (b) in subsection (7) of Section 40 in the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 (investigation of procurement functions), which references the National Health Service (Procurement, Patient Choice and Competition) (No. 2) Regulations 2013.
	Subsection (4) revokes the National Health Service (Procurement, Patient Choice and Competition) (No. 2) Regulations 2013.