The National Health Service (Service Committees and Tribunal) Amendment Regulations 1995

PART III ABOLITION OF APPEALS AND OF APPLICATIONS TO SECRETARY OF STATE

Abolition of appeal and of application for removal of disqualification to Secretary of State

5.—(1) The principal Regulations shall be amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 21 (interpretation and forms), the definition of “appellant” shall be omitted.

(3) In regulation 26 (inquiry as to representations), in paragraph (5), for “to the Secretary of State under section 46(3) of the Act” there shall be substituted “under section 11(1) of the Tribunals and Inquiries Act 1992(1).

(4) Regulation 27 (appeals to Secretary of State as to representations) shall be omitted.

(5) In regulation 28 (applications for removal of disqualification), “or to the Secretary of State” shall be omitted.

(6) Regulation 30 (applications to the Secretary of State) shall be omitted.

(7) In regulation 31 (publication of decisions)—

(a) paragraph (b) shall be omitted; and

(b) in paragraph (c), “or the Secretary of State” shall be omitted.

(8) In regulation 33 (attendance by member of Council on Tribunals), in paragraph (d), for “14(8), 15(3), or (22), 27(2) or 30(4)” there shall be substituted “14(8) or 15(3) or (22)”.

(9) In regulation 35 (power to extend time limits), in paragraph (3)(c), for “17(10) or 27(1)” there shall be substituted “or 17(10)”.

(10) In regulation 36 (fresh appointments), for “13, 14, 27 or 30” there shall be substituted “13 or 14”.

(11) In Schedule 9 (hearings under Part III), for paragraph 10(b) there shall be substituted—

“(b) references to the person holding the inquiry are (subject to regulation 26A) to the Tribunal.”.

(1)

1992 c. 53.