These Regulations are made under section 234B of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 (c. 52). For the purposes of enabling work notices under section 234C of that Act to be given, these Regulations specify:
ambulance services and the Non-emergency Patient Transport Service, to the extent they are provided by the Ambulance Service NHS Trusts in England, the Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trusts in England and the Isle of Wight NHS Trust, as “relevant services”, and
the levels of service in relation to strikes as respects those relevant services.
A full regulatory impact assessment of the effect that this instrument will have on the costs of business, the voluntary sector and the public sector is available from the Department of Health and Social Care, 39 Victoria Street, London, SW1H 0EU, and is annexed to the Explanatory Memorandum which is available alongside this instrument on www.legislation.gov.uk.