The National Health Service Commissioning Board and Clinical Commissioning Groups (Responsibilities and Standing Rules) Regulations 2012

Citation and commencement E+W

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as [F1 the] National Health Service Commissioning Board and Clinical Commissioning Groups (Responsibilities and Standing Rules) Regulations 2012 and, subject to paragraphs (2) to (4), come into force on 1st April 2013.

(2) The following provisions of the Regulations come into force on 1st February 2013—

(a) this Part;

F2 (b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(c) Part 5 (standing rules: commissioning contract terms); and

(d) insofar as they relate to the functions of a relevant body in arranging for the provision of services as part of the health service on and after the relevant date—

(i) Part 3 (services to be commissioned by the Board),

F3 (ii) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(iii) in Part 6 (standing rules: NHS Continuing Healthcare and NHS funded nursing care), regulations 21, 22 and 28, and regulation 20 insofar as it defines terms that appear in those regulations,

(iv) in Part 7 (standing rules: decisions about drugs and other treatment), regulations 33 to 35,

(v) in Part 8 (standing rules: choice of health service provider), regulations 38 to 41,

(vi) in Part 9 (standing rules: waiting times), regulations 44 to 50 and 52 to 54, and

(vii) Part 10 (standing rules: funding of therapies for Multiple Sclerosis).

(3) Part 8 of these Regulations, insofar as the provisions of that Part are made under section 75 of the 2012 Act, comes into force immediately after that section comes fully into force M1 .

(4) Part 11 of these Regulations (financial duties of a relevant body in relation to administration) comes into force immediately after sections 24 and 27 of the 2012 Act come fully into force M2 .

Textual Amendments

F1 Word in reg. 1(1) inserted (1.10.2014) by The National Health Service Commissioning Board and Clinical Commissioning Groups (Responsibilities and Standing Rules) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1611), regs. 1(1), 2

F2 Reg. 1(2)(b) omitted (1.7.2022) by virtue of The National Health Service (Integrated Care Boards: Responsibilities) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/635), regs. 1(1), 9(2)(a)

F3 Reg. 1(2)(d)(ii) omitted (1.7.2022) by virtue of The National Health Service (Integrated Care Boards: Responsibilities) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/635), regs. 1(1), 9(2)(b)

Marginal Citations

M1 Section 75 was commenced for limited purposes by section 306(1)(d) of the 2012 Act.

M2 Sections 24 and 27 were commenced for limited purposes by section 306(1)(d) of the 2012 Act and S.I. 2012/1831.