The National Health Service (Primary Medical Services and Primary Dental Services) (Wales) (Amendment and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2016 No. 90 (W. 43)

PART 4 Amendment of the GDS Regulations

Amendment of regulation 9 of the GDS Regulations

10.  In regulation 9(7) of the GDS Regulations (health body status) for sub-paragraph (b) substitute the following sub-paragraph—

“(b) paragraph (5), where it or the Local Health Board—

(i) has referred any matter to the NHS dispute resolution procedure before it ceases to be a health service body, or

(ii) refers any matter to the NHS dispute resolution procedure, in accordance with paragraph 54(1)(a) of Schedule 3, after it ceases to be a heath service body,

the contractor is to continue to be treated as a health service body (and accordingly the contract is to continue to be regarded as an NHS contract) for the purposes of the consideration and determination of the dispute; or”.