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

38.  In the Patients' Forums (Membership and Procedure) Regulations 2003(1)—

(a) in regulation 1(3) (citation, commencement and interpretation), for the definition of “primary care list” substitute—

““primary care list” means—

(a)

a list referred to in section 49N(1)(a) to (c) of the 1977 Act(2);

(b)

a list of persons undertaking to provide general medical services prepared in accordance with regulations under section 29 of that Act(3) as the list existed on or before 31st March 2004;

(c)

a list of persons approved by a Primary Care Trust for the purpose of assisting in the provision of general medical services prepared in accordance with regulations under section 43D(1) of that Act as the list existed on or before 31st March 2004; or

(d)

a services list referred to in section 8ZA(1)(a) of the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997(4) as the list existed on or before 31st March 2004.”; and

(b) in regulation 4(1)(c)(iii) (disqualification for appointment) omit “, as the case may be,”.

(1)

S.I. 2003/2123.

(2)

Section 49N(1) was inserted by the Health and Social Care Act 2001 (c. 15) (“the 2001 Act”), section 25 and amended by the National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 (c. 17) (“the 2002 Act”), Schedule 2, paragraph 25 and the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (c. 43) (“the 2003 Act”), Schedule 11, paragraph 24.

(3)

Section 29 is repealed by sections 175(2) and 196 of, and Schedule 14 to, the 2003 Act.

(4)

1997 c. 46; section 8ZA was inserted by section 26(2) of the 2001 Act and was amended by section 4(3) of, and paragraphs 1 and 3 of Schedule3 to the 2002 Act; and is repealed by section 196 of, and Schedule 14 to, the 2003 Act so far as it relates to personal medical services and otherwise on a date to be appointed.