Health and Social Care Act 2012

92 (1) Schedule 11 (pilot schemes) is amended as follows.

(2) In paragraph 1 (initiation of pilot schemes), in sub-paragraph (1)(a), for “a Primary Care Trust” substitute “the Board”.

(3) In paragraph 2 (preliminary steps)—

(a) in sub-paragraph (1), for “the Primary Care Trust concerned” substitute “the Board”,

(b) in sub-paragraphs (2), (3), (4) and (5)(a) and (b), for “a Primary Care Trust” substitute “the Board”,

(c) in sub-paragraph (3)(b), for “the Primary Care Trust” substitute “the Board”, and

(d) in sub-paragraph (5)(d)—

(i) for “Primary Care Trusts” substitute “the Board”, and

(ii) for “them” substitute “it”.

(4) In paragraph 3 (approvals)—

(a) in sub-paragraphs (2) and (3)(b), for “the Primary Care Trust” substitute “the Board”, and

(b) in sub-paragraph (3)(a), for “the Primary Care Trust concerned” substitute “the Board”.

(5) In paragraph 4 (preliminary approval)—

(a) in sub-paragraphs (1) and (4), for “a Primary Care Trust” substitute “the Board”, and

(b) in sub-paragraph (2), for “The Primary Care Trust” substitute “The Board”.

(6) In paragraph 5 (effect of proposals on existing services)—

(a) in sub-paragraph (1)(a)—

(i) for “the Primary Care Trust”, in the first place it appears, substitute “the Board”, and

(ii) for “the area of the Primary Care Trust” substitute “the area concerned”,

(b) in sub-paragraph (1)(b), for the words from “supplied” to the end substitute “prepared under sub-paragraph (3)”,

(c) in sub-paragraph (3)—

(i) for “a Primary Care Trust” substitute “the Board”,

(ii) for “the area of another Primary Care Trust” substitute “another area”, and

(iii) for “consult that other Primary Care Trust about” substitute “prepare an assessment of the likely effect on those services of the implementation of”, and

(d) omit sub-paragraph (4).

(7) In paragraph 7 (making a scheme)—

(a) in sub-paragraphs (1), (2) and (4), for “the Primary Care Trust concerned” substitute “the Board”, and

(b) in sub-paragraph (1), for “the Primary Care Trust must” substitute “the Board must”.

(8) Any pilot scheme under Chapter 2 of Part 7 of the National Health Service Act 2006 having effect immediately before the commencement of this paragraph is to continue to have effect as if it had been established by the Board; and nothing in this paragraph or paragraphs 68 to 75 affects the validity of anything done under or for the purposes of the scheme.