The General Medical Services and Personal Medical Services Transitional and Consequential Provisions Order 2004

Existing pilot schemes

58.  Any pilot scheme under which personal medical services were being provided on 31st March 2004 shall, on the coming into force of section 178(1) of the 2003 Act (abolition of pilot schemes) in relation to personal medical services, be deemed to have been made under section 28C of the 1977 Act(1) and accordingly shall not cease to have effect merely because of the repeal of Part 1 of the 1997 Act in relation to personal medical services.

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Section 28C was inserted into the Act by the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997 (c. 46), section 21(1) and amended by the Health Act 1999 (c. 8), Schedule 4, paragraph 15, the Health and Social Care Act 2001 (c. 15), Schedule 5, paragraph 11(4), the National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 (c. 17), Schedule 3, paragraph 7(2) and the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (c. 43), Schedule 11, paragraph 14.