2024 No. 15
The National Health Service (Notifiable Reconfigurations and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2024
Made
Laid before Parliament
Coming into force
The Secretary of State makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 272(7) and (8) of, and paragraph 2(2) of Schedule 10A to, the National Health Service Act 20061.
Citation, commencement, extent, application and interpretation1
1
These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (Notifiable Reconfigurations and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2024 and come into force on 31st January 2024.
2
These Regulations extend to England and Wales and apply in England.
3
In these Regulations—
“the 2013 Regulations” means the Local Authority (Public Health, Health and Wellbeing Boards and Health Scrutiny) Regulations 20132;
“responsible person” has the meaning given in regulation 20(1) of the 2013 Regulations.
Notifiable reconfigurations2
1
A reconfiguration of NHS services3 is a notifiable reconfiguration for the purposes of paragraph 2 of Schedule 10A to the National Health Service Act 2006 if it falls within paragraph (2).
2
Subject to regulation 3, a reconfiguration of NHS services falls within this paragraph if a responsible person is obliged to undertake a consultation in respect of a proposal for such a reconfiguration under regulation 23(1)(a) of the 2013 Regulations4.
Transitional provision3
A reconfiguration of NHS services will not be notifiable if, prior to 31st January 2024, a responsible person has begun a consultation in respect of a proposal for such a reconfiguration under regulation 23(1)(a) of the 2013 Regulations.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
(This note is not part of the Regulations)