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

Local Government Area Changes Regulations 1976

35.—(1) The Local Government Area Changes Regulations 1976(1) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 3(4) (interpretation), for “an area health authority” there is substituted “a health authority or Primary Care Trust”(2).

(3) In regulation 28 (family practitioner services)—

(a)for “area health authority” there is substituted “health authority or Primary Care Trust”; and

(b)after “such authority” there is inserted “or Trust”.

(4) In Schedule 2 (family practitioner services)—

(a)in paragraph 1—

(i)for “area health authority” there is substituted “health authority or Primary Care Trust”,

(ii)after “such authority” there is inserted “or Trust”,

(iii)“and “the transferor committee” means the family practitioner committee established for that area” is omitted, and

(iv)“and “the transferee committee” means the family practitioner committee established for that area” is omitted;

(b)in paragraph 2(a)—

(i)for “transferor committee” there is substituted “transferor authority”,

(ii)for “on behalf of the transferee authority by the transferee committee” there is substituted “by the transferee authority”;

(c)in paragraph 3, for “committee”, in both places it occurs, there is substituted “authority”;

(d)in paragraph 4, for “family practitioner committee” there is substituted “health authority or Primary Care Trust”;

(e)in paragraphs 5 to 7, for “committee”, in each place it occurs, there is substituted “authority”;

(f)in paragraph 8—

(i)in paragraph (b), for “committee” there is substituted “authority”,

(ii)for “an area health authority or family practitioner committee” there is substituted “a health authority or Primary Care Trust”; and

(g)in paragraph 10, for “an area health authority or a family practitioner committee” there is substituted “a health authority or Primary Care Trust”.