The National Health Service Litigation Authority (Establishment and Constitution) Order 1995
This Order provides for the establishment and constitution of a Special Health Authority, to be known as the National Health Service Litigation Authority (“the Authority”), to exercise on behalf of the Secretary of State certain of his functions in connection with the establishment and, subsequently, the administration of a scheme under section 21 of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 for meeting liabilities of health service bodies to third parties for loss, damage or injury arising out of the exercise by those bodies of their functions.