The National Health Service (General Medical and Pharmaceutical Services) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1991

Transitional arrangements

13.—(1) Where, prior to 1st April 1991—

(a) any appeal has been made or question referred to—

(i) the Rural Dispensing Committee for determination under regulation 3OF of the principal Regulations as then in force,

(ii) an Appeal Panel for determination under Part IV of Schedule 4C to the principal Regulations as then in force,

(iii) the Secretary of State for determination under any provision of the principal Regulations as then in force, or

(iv) a Local Medical Committee or the Secretary of State for determination under regulation 20 of the National Health Service (Service Committees and Tribunal) Regulations 1974 as then in force; and

(b) that appeal or question has not been determined by the Rural Dispensing Committee, the Appeal Panel, the Local Medical Committee or the Secretary of State, as the case may be,

the principal Regulations shall, in relation to the determination of that appeal or question, have effect as if these Regulations had not come into force.

(2) Where, by virtue of paragraph (1)(a)(iv) of this regulation, any Local Medical Committee determines, on or after I st April 1991, a question which was referred to it before that date, that determination shall be treated for the purposes of regulation 33C(8) of the principal Regulations as if it were a determination of the Family Health Services Authority under paragraph (7) of that regulation.