Health service body status: variation of contracts E+W
11.—(1) A contractor may at any time request in writing a variation of the contract to include in, or remove from, the contract provision to the effect that the contract is an NHS contract and, if it does so—
(a)the Local Health Board must agree to the variation, and
(b)the procedure specified in regulation 27 and Part 11 of Schedule 3 for the variation of contracts applies.
(2) If, by virtue of a request under paragraph (1), the contractor is to be regarded as a health service body any rights or liabilities under any other contract with a health service body entered into by the contractor before the date on which the contractor is so regarded remain unaffected.
(3) Where the Local Health Board agrees to the variation to the contract, the contractor must—
(a)be regarded, or
(b)subject to regulation 12, cease to be regarded,
as a health service body for the purposes of section 7 of the Act beginning with the date that the variation is to take effect pursuant to regulation 27 and Part 11 of Schedule 3.