The National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) Regulations 2015

PART 15 E+W General transitional provision and saving, consequential amendments and revocations

General transitional provision and saving E+W

96.—(1) This regulation applies to—

(a) the exercise by [F1 NHS England] of any of its functions under the 2004 Regulations on or before the commencement date;

(b) any rights or liabilities of [F1 NHS England] in respect of the exercise of any of its functions under the 2004 Regulations; and

(c) any rights or liabilities of a Primary Care Trust transferred to [F1 NHS England] as a consequence of a property transfer scheme made under section 300 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (transfer schemes).

(2) Subject to paragraph (4), any act or omission concerning a contract to which the 2004 Regulations applied immediately before the commencement date in respect of any of the matters specified in paragraph (1), is to be treated as an act or omission concerning a contract to which these Regulations apply.

(3) Subject to paragraph (4), anything which, on or before the commencement date, is done or is in the process of being done under the 2004 Regulations concerning a contract to which the 2004 Regulations applied immediately before that date in respect of any of the matters specified in paragraph (1), is to be treated as if done or in the process of being done under these Regulations.

(4) Notwithstanding paragraphs (2) and (3) and the revocations provided for in Schedule 5, where the 2004 Regulations contain a provision for which there is no equivalent provision in these Regulations (“the relevant provision”), the 2004 Regulations, as they were in force immediately before the commencement date, are to continue to apply to the extent necessary for the purposes of—

(a) preserving any rights conferred or liabilities accrued by or under the relevant provision; or

(b) the assessment or determination of any rights or liabilities arising under or in accordance with the relevant provision.

(5) In this regulation—

(a) “the commencement date” means the date on which these Regulations come into force;

(b) “contract” includes any contract to which the 2004 Regulations applied immediately before the commencement date under which medical services were provided before 1st January 2005 (whether or not such services continued to be provided after that date); and

(c) references to the exercise by [F1 NHS England] of any of its functions include the exercise by [F1 NHS England] of any functions of a Primary Care Trust under Part 4 of the Act.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in Regulations substituted (6.11.2023) by The Health and Care Act 2022 (Further Consequential Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1071), reg. 1(1), Sch. para. 1

Consequential amendments E+W

97.  Schedule 4 makes provision in respect of the amendments to secondary legislation which are consequential upon the coming into force of these Regulations.

Revocations E+W

98.  Schedule 5 makes provision in respect of the revocation of the enactments specified in column 1 of the Table in that Schedule to the extent specified in column 2 of that Table.