The Local Health Boards (Establishment) (Wales) Order 2003
The strategy document Improving Health in Wales, published by the National Assembly for Wales in February 2001, signalled the intention to abolish the existing five Health Authorities in Wales on 1st April 2003 and to create Local Health Boards to which the National Assembly may delegate functions of Health Authorities transferred to it pursuant to section 27 of the Government of Wales Act 1998 (1998 c. 38), and other functions of the National Assembly relating to the health service.