Amendment of the National Health Service Trusts (Consultation on Establishment and Dissolution) Regulations 1996
9. Regulation 2 of the NHS Trusts Consultation Regulations shall be amended as follows—
(a)at the beginning of paragraph (3), insert “Subject to paragraph (3A),”;
(b)after paragraph (3), insert the following paragraph—
“(3A) Paragraph (3) shall not apply where the order to be made under section 5(1) of the Act is an order the only purpose of which is to designate an existing NHS trust as a Care Trust (in accordance with section 45(5)(a) of the 2001 Act) (designation of an existing body as a Care Trust).”.