The National Health Service (General Medical Services) Amendment Regulations 1995

Readvertisement for vacancies by FHSAs

2.—(1) In regulation 12A(4) of the principal Regulations (which defines “closing date” for the purposes of vacancy notices)(1), for “paragraph (2A)” there is substituted “paragraphs (2A) and (2AA)”.

(2) In regulation 13 of the principal Regulations (selection of applicants by FHSA), the following paragraphs are substituted for paragraph (2A)(2)—

“(2A) Subject to paragraph (2AA), the FHSA shall not begin making its selection for the purposes of paragraph (2) until—

(a) after it has resolved to give no more notices; and

(b) the closing date included in the last notice given before the FHSA’s resolution to give no more notices has passed.

(2AA) Where—

(a) the FHSA has received 20 or more applications in respect of the vacancy (whether in response to the first notice or in response to the first notice and one or more further notices combined); or

(b) it has given 3 further notices of the vacancy, and the closing date included in the last of them has passed,

it may begin making its selection for the purposes of paragraph (2) without resolving to give no more notices.”

(1)

Regulation 12A was inserted by S.I. 1994/633.

(2)

Paragraph (2A) was inserted by S.I. 1994/633.