In this Schedule—

• “the Act” means the National Health Service Act 1977273;

• “the 1997 Act” means the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997274;

• “corresponding list” means a list prepared on or after the relevant date by a Primary Care Trust pursuant to sections 29, 29A, 36, 39, 42, 43 or 43D275 of the Act, that corresponds to a list of the same type that was maintained pursuant to the same provisions by a Health Authority immediately before the relevant date;

• “Health Authority” means a Health Authority established under section 8 of the Act immediately before the relevant date;

• “locality” means the locality for which a Health Authority was, or a Primary Care Trust or Strategic Health Authority is, established under the Act; and

• “relevant date”, except in Part 4, means 1st October 2002.

In this Part—

• “appropriate Primary Care Trust” means the Primary Care Trust on whose corresponding list an existing practitioner is to be included, pursuant to paragraph 2(1);

• “existing practitioner” means a person whose name was, immediately before the relevant date, included in an old list;

• “old list” means a list maintained by a Health Authority, pursuant to sections 29, 29A, 36, 39, 42, 43 or 43D of the Act before the relevant date; and

• “relevant Strategic Health Authority” means the Strategic Health Authority that, on the relevant date, has the same locality as the Health Authority in relation to whose old list, or in relation to the existing practitioner whose name is included in that list, the matter or question to be determined arises.