The Public Health Scotland Order 2019
This Order constitutes, under article 3, a Special Health Board for the whole of Scotland to be known as Public Health Scotland (the “Board”). In accordance with article 1 the Order comes into force on 7 December 2019, except articles 6 and 7, which relate to the dissolution of the Special Health Board known as NHS Health Scotland, and the consequential amendments in paragraphs 1(2)(a) and 2 to 16 of schedule 2, which come into force on 1 April 2020.