Health and Social Care Act 2012

Contents etc. of reference

1 (1) A reference under section 120 must specify—

(a) Monitor’s reasons for proposing the method to which the reference relates, and

(b) its representations as to why the grounds referred to in section 121(4) do not apply.

(2) Monitor must give notice of the reference to—

(a) the National Health Service Commissioning Board, and

(b) each objector.

(3) The notice must be accompanied by a copy of the reference.

(4) In this Schedule, “objector” means—

(a) in relation to a reference made where the condition in section 120(2)(a) is not met, each clinical commissioning group who objected to the proposed method to which the reference relates, and

(b) in relation to a reference made where the condition in section 120(2)(b) or (c) is not met, each relevant provider who objected to that proposed method.