SCHEDULE 1AMENDMENTS CONSEQUENTIAL ON PART 1 OF THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE REFORM AND HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONS ACT 2002

PART 2STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

National Health Service (Clinical Negligence Scheme) Regulations 1996

68.

(1)

The National Health Service (Clinical Negligence Scheme) Regulations 1996106 are amended as follows.

(2)

In regulation 1 (citation, commencement and interpretation), in paragraph (2), in the definition of “an eligible body” there is added at the end “or a body which before 1 October 2002 was a Health Authority whose area was situated in England”.

(3)

In regulation 3 (eligible bodies), in paragraph (1), for sub-paragraph (b) there is substituted—

“(b)

a Strategic Health Authority,”.