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England

5Duty to consider potential application of scheme

(1)The Secretary of State may by regulations make provision requiring any body or other person mentioned in subsection (2)—

(a)to consider, in such circumstances as the regulations may provide, whether a case that the body or other person is investigating or reviewing involves liability to which a scheme applies, and

(b)if it appears that it does, to take such steps as the regulations may provide.

(2)The bodies and other persons referred to are—

(a)any body or other person to whose liability a scheme applies, and

(b)the Commission for Healthcare Audit and Inspection.