The National Health Service (Pension Scheme, Injury Benefits and Compensation for Premature Retirement) Amendment Regulations 2003

Local Health Boards

3.—(1) After paragraph (bb) of the definition of “employing authority” in each of the provisions specified in paragraph (3) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

“(bbb) a Local Health Board established under section 16BA of that Act(1),”.

(2) After paragraph (aa) of the definition of “NHS dental employee” in each of the provisions specified in paragraph (3) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

“(aaa) a Local Health Board;”.

(3) The provisions specified for the purposes of paragraph (1) and (2) (interpretation) are—

(a) regulation A2 of the principal Regulations;

(b) regulation 2(1) of the Injury Benefits Regulations.

(4) In paragraph (b) of the definition of “practitioner” in regulation A2 of the principal Regulations, after the words “a Primary Care Trust”, there shall be inserted the words “, a Local Health Board”.

(5) In Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations, in both—

(a) the definitions of “the listing Authority” and “the appropriate contracting party” in paragraph 2(1A) as substituted by regulation 4(3)(a) below; and

(b) paragraph 9(1),

for the words “or Primary Care Trust”, there shall be substituted the words “, Primary Care Trust or Local Health Board”.

(6) In regulation 2(1) of the Injury Benefits Regulations—

(a) in the definition of “assistant practitioner”, for the words “or Primary Care Trust” in both places where those words occur, there shall be substituted the words “, Primary Care Trust or Local Health Board”;

(b) in paragraphs (a) and (e) of the definition of “practitioner”, for the words “or Primary Care Trust” wherever those words occur, there shall be substituted the words “, Primary Care Trust or Local Health Board”.

(7) After paragraph (d) of the definition of “employing authority” in regulation 2(1) of the National Health Service (Compensation for Premature Retirement) Regulations 2002(2) (interpretation), there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

“(dd) a Local Health Board established under section 16BA of the National Health Service Act 1977;”.

(1)

“That Act” is the National Health Service Act 1977 (c. 49). Section 16BA was inserted by the National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 (c. 17), section 6.

(2)

S.I. 2002/1311.