The General Medical Services and Personal Medical Services Transitional and Consequential Provisions Order 2004

Saving of sections 2A and 6(5) of the Health Service Commissioners Act 1993

113.  Notwithstanding the coming into force of the amendments to sections 2A and 6(5) of the Health Service Commissioners Act 1993(1) made by paragraphs 62 and 63 of Schedule 11 to the 2003 Act(2), in relation to any complaint arising in respect of a matter which occurred before 1st April 2004, sections 2A and 6(5) shall have effect as if those amendments had not been brought into force.

(1)

1993 c. 46. Section 2A was inserted by the Health Service Commissioners (Amendment) Act 1996 (c. 5), section 1 and amended by the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997 (c. 46), Schedule 2, paragraph 68, the Health Service Commissioners (Amendment) Act 2000 (c. 28), section 1, the Scottish Public Services Ombudsman Act 2002 (asp 11), Schedule 6, paragraph 14 and the 2003 Act, Schedule 11, paragraph 62; section 6(5) was inserted by the Health Service Commissioners (Amendment) Act 1996 (c. 5), section 7(3) and amended by the National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 (c. 17), Schedule 2, paragraph 61 and the 2003 Act, Schedule 11, paragraph 63.

(2)

Paragraphs 62 and 63 of Schedule 11 were commenced on 1st April 2004 by article 5(2)(w) of the 2003 Act commencement order, subject to the transitional provision in article 7(10) of that Order.