[F116A Primary Care Trusts.E+W+S
[F2(1)It is the duty of the Secretary of State to establish bodies to be known as Primary Care Trusts for areas in England with a view to their exercising functions in relation to the health service.
(1A)The Secretary of State shall act under this section so as to ensure that the areas for which Primary Care Trusts are at any time established together comprise the whole of England.]
(2)Each Primary Care Trust shall be established by an order made by him (referred to in this Act as a PCT order).
(3)A Primary Care Trust shall be established for the area [F3of England] specified in its PCT order and shall exercise its functions in accordance with any prohibitions or restrictions in the order.
(4)If any consultation requirements apply, they must be complied with before a PCT order is made.
(5)In this section, ”consultation requirements” means requirements about consultation contained in regulations (and the regulations must impose requirements where a PCT order establishes a Primary Care Trust).
(6)Schedule 5A to this Act (which makes further provision about Primary Care Trusts) shall have effect.]
Textual Amendments
F1Ss. 16A, 16B inserted (8.9.1999 for specified purposes for E. and 4.1.2000 insofar as not already in force for E.) by 1999 c. 8, s. 2(1); S.I. 1999/2342, art. 2(2)(a)(3), Sch. 2
F2S. 16A(1)(1A) substituted (1.10.2002) for s. 16A(1) by National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 (c. 17), ss. {2(2)}, 42(3); S.I. 2002/2478, art. 3(1)(a)
F3Words in s. 16A(3) inserted (1.10.2002) by National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 (c. 17), ss. {2(3)}, 42(3); S.I. 2002/2478, art. 3(1)(a)
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 16A extended (19.12.2001 for E.) by 2001 c. 15, ss. 45(5), 70(2) (with ss. 64(9), 65(4)); S.I. 2001/4149, art. 2(a)