The National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 (Supplementary, Consequential etc. Provisions) Regulations 2002

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.