The National Health Service (Personal Medical Services Agreements) Regulations 2015

Health service body status: variation of agreements

10.—(1) A contractor may at any time request in writing a variation of the agreement to include in, or remove from, the agreement provision to the effect that the agreement is an NHS contract and, if it does so—

(a) the Board must agree to the variation; and

(b) the procedure specified in regulation 24 and Part 8 of Schedule 2 for the variation of agreements applies.

(2) If, by virtue of a request under paragraph (1), the agreement is varied so as to remove provision from it to the effect that it is an NHS contract, the contractor is, subject to regulation 11, to cease to be regarded as a health service body for the purposes of section 9 of the Act from the date on which that variation takes effect.

(3) If, by virtue of a request under paragraph (1), the agreement is varied so as to include provision in it to the effect that it is an NHS contract, the contractor is to be regarded as a health service body for the purposes of section 9 of the Act from the date on which that variation takes effect.

(4) Where the Board agrees to the variation of the agreement, the contractor is to be regarded, or, subject to regulation 11, is to cease to be regarded as a health service body for the purposes of section 9 of the Act (NHS contracts) from the date on which the variation takes effect by virtue of paragraph 52(1) of Schedule 2.