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

National Health Service (Appointment of Consultants) Regulations 1996

71.—(1) The National Health Service (Appointment of Consultants) Regulations 1996(1) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 2(1) (interpretation)—

(a) in the definition of “Authority”, after “a Health Authority,” there is inserted “a Strategic Health Authority, a Primary Care Trust,”;

(b) for the definition of “relevant University” there is substituted—

““relevant University” means for an appointment to a Strategic Health Authority or Primary Care Trust, any University associated with the provision of health services to that Authority or Trust;”; and

(c) the definition of “Teaching Authority” is omitted.

(3) In regulation 5 (exempt appointments), paragraph (1)(b) is omitted.

(4) In Schedule 1 (constitution of an advisory appointments committee), in paragraph 2(b), for (i) there is substituted—

“(i) in the case of a Strategic Health Authority, a practitioner employed within the area of the Authority making the appointment,

(ia) in the case of a Primary Care Trust, a practitioner employed within the area of the Trust making the appointment, or”.

(1)

S.I. 1996/701.