The Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Primary Dental Services, Private Ambulance Services and Primary Medical Services) (Regulated Activities) (Transitory and Transitional Provisions) Order 2010

Notification of the need to make an application

11.—(1) The Commission must give notice of the need to make an application under section 11 of the Act (applications for registration as a service provider) to persons to whom paragraph (2) applies.

(2) This paragraph applies to any person—

(a) who is carrying on an activity consisting of the provision of NHS primary medical services which will be a regulated activity with effect from 1st April 2012; and

(b) whose name is known to the Commission as someone carrying on such an activity

(3) Notification sent pursuant to paragraph (1) must specify—

(a) the form in which the application must be made;

(b) the information it must contain or be accompanied by;

(c) the application date; and

(d) that the application under section 11 of the Act (applications for registration as a service provider) must be made to the Commission on or before the application date, in the specified form and contain or be accompanied by the specified information, in order for article 12 to apply.

(4) The application date in any notification sent pursuant to paragraph (1) must be a date at least 28 days after the date on which the notification is sent.

(5) Where—

(a) the Commission gives notice in accordance with paragraph (1) of the need to make an application for registration in accordance with section 11; and

(b) any such registration would be subject to a registered manager condition,

the Commission may, at the same time as giving notice under paragraph (1), give notice to the person to whom that notification is sent of the fact that an application must be made under section 14 of the Act (applications for registration as a manager) by a person proposing to manage the regulated activity.

(6) Notification sent pursuant to paragraph (5) must specify—

(a) the form in which the application must be made;

(b) the information it must contain or be accompanied by;

(c) the application date (which need not be the same as the application date given in accordance with paragraph (3)); and

(d) that an application under section 14 of the Act by a person proposing to manage the regulated activity must be made to the Commission on or before the application date given in the notification, in the specified form and contain or be accompanied by the specified information, in order for article 12 to apply.

(7) The application date in any notification sent pursuant to paragraph (5) must be a date at least 28 days after the date on which the notification is sent.