New regulation 69A
19. In Part 6 (Miscellaneous), before regulation 70 insert—
“Home Primary Care Trusts
69A.—(1) Where an applicant which is a body corporate with a registered office in England, is required to provide to a Primary Care Trust any information under Part 3 of Schedule 4 such information may be provided to the applicant’s home Primary Care Trust instead of to the Primary Care Trust to whom it is making the application.
(2) Where an applicant has already provided that information to the home Primary Care Trust in relation to a previous application, it does not need to provide it again in relation to the current application.
(3) Where paragraph (1) or (2) applies, the applicant shall inform the Primary Care Trust to which the application is made that his home Primary Care Trust already has the information.
(4) Where paragraph (2) applies, the applicant shall in addition either—
(a)confirm that information is up to date; or
(b)update the information by sending it to his home Primary Care Trust.
(5) The home Primary Care Trust shall consider the information as if it were considering an application in accordance with regulation 19 and shall prepare a recommendation as to whether the application should be refused under regulation 19.
(6) recommendation shall set out all relevant facts and shall be fully reasoned.
(7) The home Primary Care Trust shall pass any information it has received from the applicant and its recommendation to any Primary Care Trust to which an application has been made by the applicant within 28 days of being requested to do so by that other Primary Care Trust.”.