The Health and Care Act 2022 (Commencement No. 2 and Transitional and Saving Provision) Regulations 2022 No. 734 (C. 45)

PART 9 Transitional provision in relation to procurement, patient choice and competition

Transitional provision in relation to the provision of regulatory information or assistance to the CMA

20.  During the period beginning with 1st July 2022 and ending when section 78 of the 2022 Act (regulations as to patient choice) comes into force, section 13SC of the 2006 Act(1) (provision of regulatory information or assistance to the CMA) is to be read as if, in subsection (2), in the definition of “regulatory information”, in paragraph (b), for sub-paragraph (i) there were substituted—

“(i) sections 76 and 77 of, and Schedule 9 to, the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (regulations etc relating to procurement, patient choice and competition), and measures made under those provisions in the National Health Service (Procurement, Patient Choice and Competition) (No. 2) Regulations 2013(2);”.

(1)

Section 13SC is inserted by section 82(1) of the 2022 Act.

(2)

S.I. 2013/500, amended by S.I. 2015/102, 1862, 1879 and 2016/275.