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

62.—(1) The National Health Service Pension Scheme Regulations 1995(1) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation A2 (interpretation),—

(a) in the definition of “employing authority”, before paragraph (a) there is inserted—

“(za) a Strategic Health Authority established under section 8 of the National Health Service Act 1977,”;

(b) in the definition of “NHS dental employee”, before paragraph (a) there is inserted—

“(za) a Strategic Health Authority;”; and

(c) in the definition of “practitioner”, in paragraph (b), after “Primary Care Trust” there is inserted “, a Strategic Health Authority”.

(3) In Schedule 2 (medical and dental practitioners)—

(a) in paragraph 1, in the definition of “locum practitioner”, in paragraph (b)(i), after “the Authority” there is inserted “or Trust”; and

(b) in paragraph 5(3)—

(i) after “that Authority” there is inserted “or Trust”, and

(ii) after “the Authority” there is inserted “or Trust”.

(1)

S.I. 1995/300. Further amendments to the National Health Service Pension Scheme Regulations 1995 are contained in Schedules 5, 6 and 11.