The National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997 (Commencement No. 4) Order 1998

References to certain terms

3.—(1) This article applies to the following enactments—

(a) a provision of the Act brought into force pursuant to article 2(a); and

(b) a provision of another Act, as amended, inserted or replaced by a provision of the Act brought into force pursuant to article 2(b).

(2) Where an enactment to which this article applies refers to arrangements made under section 28C of the 1977 Act or to arrangements made under section 17C of the 1978 Act (however that reference is worded), such a reference is to be taken as referring only to a pilot scheme under Part I of the Act under which personal medical services are to be provided, and the purpose of bringing the provision of the Act in question into force is limited accordingly.

(3) Where an enactment falling within paragraph (1)(b) would refer to “personal dental services” if the provision of the Act effecting the amendment, insertion or replacement were fully in force, that provision of the Act is brought into force pursuant to article 2(b) only so far as to effect the amendment, insertion or replacement with the omission of the reference to personal dental services; and the purpose of bringing that provision of the Act into force is limited accordingly.

(4) Provisions of the Act brought into force for the limited purpose referred to in paragraph (3) are marked with an asterisk in Schedule 2.