The National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 (Supplementary, Consequential etc. Provisions) Regulations 2002

Referrals to investigating discipline committees before the relevant date (regulation 5 of the 1992 Regulations)

14.  Where a Health Authority (A) has not, before the relevant date, determined what action it will take in relation to a practitioner as a consequence of a report that has been produced by a discipline committee of a Health Authority (B)—

(a)where the report relates to a single list practitioner, the relevant Primary Care Trust (A) shall determine what action should be taken in accordance with regulation 8 of the 1992 Regulations; or

(b)where the matter relates to a multiple list practitioner, the relevant Primary Care Trusts shall nominate from amongst themselves the Primary Care Trust (A) that will determine what action should be taken in accordance with regulation 8 of the 1992 Regulations,

and any acts done by the Health Authority (A) in relation to that matter before the relevant date shall be deemed to have been done by that relevant Primary Care Trust (A), and that relevant Primary Care Trust (A) shall be deemed to be, on and after the relevant date, the appropriate Primary Care Trust for the purposes of the 1992 Regulations in respect of that matter.