The National Health Service (Service Committees and Tribunal) Amendment Regulations 1995

Withdrawal of representations and suspension of procedures

7.—(1) Regulation 25 of the principal Regulations (withdrawal of representations and suspension of procedures) shall be amended as follows.

(2) In paragraph (3), at the beginning there shall be inserted “Subject to paragraph (3A),”.

(3) After paragraph (3) there shall be inserted the following new paragraph—

“(3A) Where representations are withdrawn or treated as withdrawn after the Tribunal has given a direction under section 49A(2) of the Act, that direction shall cease to have effect; and—

(a) the Tribunal shall include this information also when informing the respondent under paragraph (3);

(b) the Tribunal shall immediately also so inform the Secretary of State in writing that the direction has ceased to have effect; and

(b) the Secretary of State shall so inform anyone to whom he sent a copy of the Tribunal’s decision pursuant to regulation 24A(7).”.

(4) In paragraph (4), at the beginning there shall be inserted “Except where the Tribunal has made a direction under section 49A(2) of the Act,”.