SCHEDULE 12

PART 2Transitional provisions relating to the National Health Service (Service Committees and Tribunal) Regulations 1992

Excessive prescribing matters referred to a professional committee before the relevant date (regulation 15 of the 1992 Regulations)

24.  Where the appeal body has, before the relevant date, made a determination that an amount should be recovered from a practitioner pursuant to regulation 15(28) of the 1992 Regulations but a Health Authority has not fully recovered that amount from the practitioner before the relevant date—

(a)where the determination relates to a single list practitioner, the relevant Primary Care Trust; or

(b)where the determination relates to a multiple list practitioner, a relevant Primary Care Trust that has been nominated, by the relevant Primary Care Trusts from amongst themselves,

shall be deemed to be subject to that determination and shall be entitled to recover the amount outstanding pursuant to regulation 15 of the 1992 Regulations.