PART 3Miscellaneous amendments of the PDS Agreements Regulations relating to the Health and Social Care Act 2012 and other amendments

Amendment of regulation 9I130

In regulation 9 (health service body status)—

a

for paragraph (1) substitute—

1

A contractor shall be regarded as a health service body for the purposes of section 4 of the 1990 Act from the date it makes an agreement unless—

a

in the case of an agreement with a single individual, that individual;

b

in the case of an agreement with a dental corporation, that corporation;

c

in the case of a company limited by shares, that company; or

d

in the case of a limited liability partnership, that partnership,

object in a written notice served on the Board at any time prior to the agreement being made.

b

in paragraphs (4)(a), (5), and (7)(b), for “the Relevant Body” substitute “the Board”.