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

Interpretation

6.  In this Part—

• “appropriate Primary Care Trust” has the same meaning as in regulation 2(1) of the 1992 Regulations;

• “list” means a dental list, medical list, ophthalmic list, or pharmaceutical list within the meaning of regulation 2(1) of the 1992 Regulations;

• “multiple list practitioner” means a practitioner who—

  (a)

  by virtue of being included in a particular Health Authority’s list immediately before the relevant date, is included in the list of two or more relevant Primary Care Trusts in accordance with the provisions of Part 1 of this Schedule, or

  (b)

  having been included in a particular Health Authority’s list at the relevant time, would, if he had been included in that Health Authority’s list immediately before the relevant date, be included in the list of two or more relevant Primary Care Trusts in accordance with the provisions of Part 1 of this Schedule;

• “the 1992 Regulations” means the National Health Service (Service Committees and Tribunal) Regulations 1992(1);

• “relevant Primary Care Trust” means a Primary Care Trust—

  (a)

  in whose list the practitioner’s name is included on the relevant date pursuant to Part 1 of this Schedule, or

  (b)

  in whose list the practitioner’s name would have been included pursuant to Part 1 of this Schedule if, on the relevant date, his name had remained on the Health Authority list that his name was included in at the relevant time;

• “relevant time” has the same meaning as in regulation 4(8) of the 1992 Regulations;

• “single list practitioner” means a practitioner who—

  (a)

  by virtue of being included in a particular Health Authority’s list immediately before the relevant date, is included in the list of one relevant Primary Care Trust on the relevant date pursuant to Part 1 of this Schedule, or

  (b)

  having been included in a particular Health Authority’s list at the relevant time, would, if he had been included in that Health Authority’s list immediately before the relevant date, be included in the list of one relevant Primary Care Trust on the relevant date pursuant to Part 1 of this Schedule.

(1)

S.I. 1992/664. Regulations 3 and 5 were substituted by S.I. 1996/703 and regulation 15 was modified by S.I. 1996/971.