The Mental Health Review Tribunals (Regions) Order 1996

Transitional provision

4.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2) of this article, each Tribunal which was, immediately before the coming into force of this Order, in existence for a former region, shall continue to exist and shall be the Tribunal for the new region which is, in relation to that former region, the relevant new region.

(2) Any application or reference made to a Tribunal for a former region under Part V of the Act before 1st April 1996 but not determined before that date shall be determined by the Tribunal for the relevant new region even if, had the application been made on or after 1st April 1996, it would have been made to a different Tribunal.

(3) In this article—

“former region” means a region for which, immediately before 1st April 1996, a Regional Health Authority was established in pursuance of the National Health Service Act 1977(1) as then in force;

“new region” means, a region determined by article 2 of this Order;

“relevant new region” means, in relation to a former region, the new region which has the same name as that former region;

“Tribunal” means a Mental Health Review Tribunal.

(1)

1977 c. 49. See section 8 (as amended by paragraph 28 of Schedule 1 to the Health Services Act 1980 (c. 53), Schedule 10 to the Health and Social Services and Social Security Adjudications Act 1983 (c. 41) and section 1(1) of, and Schedule 10 to, the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19)) and S.I. 1994/683. See also paragraph 15(2) of Schedule 2 to the Health Authorities Act 1995 (c. 17).