The Care Trusts (Applications and Consultation) Regulations 2001 No. 3788

Amendment of the Primary Care Trusts (Consultation on Establishment, Dissolution and Transfer of Staff) Regulations 1999

8.  Regulation 3 of the PCT Consultation Regulations shall be amended as follows—

(a) at the beginning of paragraph (2), insert “Subject to paragraph (2A),”;

(b) after paragraph (2), insert the following paragraph—

“(2A) Paragraph (2) shall not apply where the order to be made under section 16A(2) is an order the only purpose of which is to designate an existing Primary Care Trust as a Care Trust (in accordance with section 45(5)(a) of the 2001 Act) (designation of an existing body as a Care Trust).”.