Health and Social Care Act 2012

Savings

12 (1) Anything which is in the process of being done by the National Information Governance Board for Health and Social Care under an enactment immediately before abolition may be continued by the Secretary of State.

(2) Despite section 280(2), section 250D of the National Health Service Act 2006 (annual report) is to continue to have effect for the purpose of imposing the duty under subsection (1)(a); and for that purpose—

(a) if abolition is to occur at a time other than immediately after the end of a reporting year within the meaning of that section, the period that begins with the 1 April before abolition and ends with abolition is to be treated as a reporting year for the purposes of that section, and

(b) the duty under subsection (1)(a) of that section must be discharged by the Secretary of State.

(3) Anything which the Board is required to do under an enactment before abolition may, in so far as it has not been done by the Board, be done by the Secretary of State after abolition.

(4) In this paragraph—

• “abolition” means the commencement of section 280(1);

• “enactment” includes an enactment contained in subordinate legislation (within the meaning of the Interpretation Act 1978).