National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002

The Health and Social Care Act 2001 (c. 15)

72 In section 18 (out of hours medical services)—

(a) in subsection (2), for paragraph (b) there is substituted—

“(b) for approval to be given, as respects out of hours services provided for persons in the area of any Primary Care Trust or Health Authority, by—

(i) that Primary Care Trust or Health Authority,

(ii) another Primary Care Trust, or

(iii) another Health Authority,”,

(b) in each of paragraphs (c) and (e), before “Health Authority” there is inserted “Primary Care Trust or”, and

(c) in paragraph (i), after “of” there is inserted “Primary Care Trusts and of”.