The National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 (Supplementary, Consequential etc. Provisions) Regulations 2002 No. 2469

SCHEDULE 1 AMENDMENTS CONSEQUENTIAL ON PART 1 OF THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE REFORM AND HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONS ACT 2002

PART 2 STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

National Health Service (Pilot Schemes-Health Service Bodies) Regulations 1997

76.—(1) The National Health Service (Pilot Schemes-Health Service Bodies) Regulations 1997(1) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 1 (citation, commencement and interpretation), in paragraph (2), after the definition of “application” there is inserted—

• ““authority” means—

  (a)

  in relation to England, a Primary Care Trust;

  (b)

  in relation to Wales, a Health Authority; and

  (c)

  in relation to Scotland, a Health Board;”.

(3) In regulation 2 (applications to become a pilot scheme health service body), paragraph (2) is omitted.

(4) In regulation 3 (ceasing to be a pilot scheme health service body)—

(a) in paragraph (2)(b), for “the Secretary of State” there is substituted “the Strategic Health Authority”; and

(b) in paragraph (2)(c), “the Secretary of State and” is omitted.

(1)

S.I. 1997/2929, amended by S.I. 1998/1136.