SCHEDULE 12

PART 2Transitional provisions relating to the National Health Service (Service Committees and Tribunal) Regulations 1992

Cases where no decision has been made by the relevant date as to whether disciplinary action should be taken (regulation 4 of the 1992 Regulations)7

Where, before the relevant date, a Health Authority—

a

has received information that could amount to an allegation that a practitioner has failed to comply with his terms of service;

b

has not taken a decision, pursuant to regulation 4(1) of the 1992 Regulations, as to whether it will take no action or take one or both of the courses of action set out in regulation 4(2) of the 1992 Regulations; and

c

any time limit specified in regulation 6 of the 1992 Regulations has not expired before the relevant date,

paragraph 8 shall apply.