xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
Where a person becomes an employee of a body constituted under the [1977 c. 49.] National Health Service Act 1977 or the [1978 c. 29.] National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 or section 91(2) of the [1984 c. 36.] Mental Health (Scotland) Act 1984 on direct transfer from employment in the civil service of the State, his period of employment in the civil service of the State at the time of the transfer shall count for the purposes of the [1978 c. 46.] Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act 1978 as a period of employment by the body whose employee he becomes, and the transfer shall not break the continuity of the period of employment or give rise to any right to a redundancy payment.
(1)Section 28(4) of the National Health Service Act 1977 shall cease to have effect.
(2)This section shall be deemed to have come into force on 26th November 1987.
(3)No payment shall be made on a claim for payment of charges under section 28(4) of the National Health Service Act 1977 which is submitted on or after 26th November 1987 but the repeal of that subsection by this section does not have effect in relation to a case where such a claim is submitted before that date.
In section 63 of the [1968 c. 46.] Health Services and Public Health Act 1968—
(a)in subsection (6)(a), after the word “section” there shall be inserted the words “and for ancillary administrative purposes,”; and
(b)in subsection (8), in paragraph (a) of the definition of “the relevant enactments”, for the words “section 48 of the Education Act 1944, Part III of the National Assistance Act 1948, section 45 of this Act” there shall be substituted the words “, any enactment functions under which for the time being stand referred to committees established in pursuance of section 2 of the [1970 c. 42.] Local Authority Social Services Act 1970.”