The National Health Service (Primary Dental Services) (Miscellaneous Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2013

Supplementary transitional provision

15.—(1) Subject to the preceding provisions in this Schedule, any act or omission by, or in relation to, a Relevant Body before the appointed day in respect of—

(a) the exercise of any functions of the Relevant Body under Part 5 of the 2006 Act; or

(b) any rights or liabilities of the Relevant Body transferred as a consequence of a property transfer scheme made under section 300 of the 2012 Act,

in relation to a PDS agreement, is deemed to have been an act or omission by, or in relation to the Board.

(2) Anything which, when these Regulations take effect, is in the process of being done by, or in relation to, the Relevant Body in respect of, or in connection with—

(a) the exercise by the Relevant Body of any of its functions under Part 5 of the 2006 Act; or

(b) any rights or liabilities of the Relevant Body transferred as a consequence of a property transfer scheme made under section 300 of the 2012 Act,

is deemed to have effect as if done by, or in relation to, and may be continued by, or in relation to, the Board.

(3) Where it is necessary for the Contractor or the Board—

(a) to take account of a period of time; or

(b) to calculate a period of time which is required in accordance with the PDS Agreements Regulations as in force on or after the appointed day,

any period of time that occurred before the appointed day and which is relevant to the matter under consideration is to be taken into account or used in order to calculate any time period for the purposes of that consideration or applying provisions in these Regulations on or after the appointed day only if that period of time could have been taken into account or used in a calculation of a time period in respect of those mirror provisions as in force immediately before the appointed day.