The National Treatment Agency (Abolition) and the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (Consequential, Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2013

Primary medical and dental services

10.—(1) In this article, “relevant Order” means—

(a) the General Medical Services Transitional and Consequential Provisions Order 2004(1),

(b) the General Medical Services and Personal Medical Services Transitional and Consequential Provisions Order 2004(2),

(c) the General Medical Services (Transitional Measure Relating to Non-Clinical Partners) Order 2004(3),

(d) the General Dental Services and Personal Dental Services Transitional Provisions Order 2005(4), or

(e) the General Dental Services, Personal Dental Services and Abolition of the Dental Practice Board Transitional and Consequential Provisions Order 2006(5).

(2) The abolition of Primary Care Trusts by section 34 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012 does not affect the continuing operation of any provision of a relevant Order which but for that abolition would be capable of having effect after 31st March 2013.

(3) Any provision of a relevant Order—

(a) which has continuing effect after 31st March 2013, and

(b) which refers to a Primary Care Trust,

is to be treated, so far as that provision falls to be applied to any act or omission occurring after that date, as if it referred to the National Health Service Commissioning Board.

(4) Any act or omission by or in relation to a Primary Care Trust before 1st April 2013 under or in connection with a provision of a relevant Order which has continuing effect after 31st March 2013 is, where appropriate, to be treated as an act or omission by or in relation to the National Health Service Commissioning Board.

(5) Anything which is in the process of being done by or in relation to a Primary Care Trust immediately before 1st April 2013 under or in connection with a provision of a relevant Order which has continuing effect after 31st March 2013 is, where appropriate, to be treated as done by or in relation to, and may be continued by or in relation to, the National Health Service Commissioning Board.

(1)

S.I. 2004/433, to which there is an amendment not relevant to this Order.

(2)

S.I. 2004/865, to which there are amendments not relevant to this Order.

(3)

S.I. 2004/1772.

(4)

S.I. 2005/3435, to which there is an amendment not relevant to this Order.

(5)

S.I. 2006/562, to which there are amendments not relevant to this Order.