The National Health Service (General Medical Services) Amendment Regulations 2002

Amendment of Part III of the principal Regulations

24.  For Regulation 18L (transitional provision) substitute—

“Transitional provisions

18L.— (1) Any decision of the Medical Practices Committee taken before 1st April 2002 shall on or after that date have effect as though the decision had been made by the Health Authority which made the reference to the Medical Practices Committee, or the Health Authority which by virtue of article 7 of the Health Authorities (Establishment and Abolition) (England) Order 2002(1) (“the 2002 Order”) is deemed to have made the reference.

(2) Any condition of practice imposed before 1st April 2002 by the Medical Practices Committee under regulation 13(1)(b) or (1)(c), or such a condition as varied by the Medical Practices Committee pursuant to regulation 15(1), as then in force, shall on or after that date have effect as though the condition had been imposed by the Health Authority which by virtue of article 7 of the 2002 Order is deemed to have made the reference.

(3) Subject to paragraph (4), where before 1st April 2002—

(a) a reference had been made to the Medical Practices Committee under regulation 11(1) as then in force, but the Medical Practices Committee had not made a decision by that date; or

(b) an application had been made to the Medical Practices Committee under regulation 15 as then in force, but the Medical Practices Committee had not determined the application by that date,

the decision, or as the case may be, the determination shall be made in accordance with these Regulations by the Health Authority which made the reference or application or which by virtue of article 7 of the 2002 Order is deemed to have made the reference or application.

(4) Where the reference to the Medical Practices Committee was made at the request of a doctor providing general medical services in the area, that doctor may, on or after the 1st April 2002, choose to withdraw the request and make a new request for consideration of the vacancy instead.”

(1)

S.I. 2002/553.