{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/abolition-of-the-nhs-tribunal-consequential-provisions-regulations-2001/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/3744",
  "legislation_title": "The Abolition of the NHS Tribunal (Consequential Provisions) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/abolition-of-the-nhs-tribunal-consequential-provisions-regulations-2001",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—\n“the 1977 Act” means the National Health Service Act 1977;\n“the 2001 Act” means the Health and Social Care Act 2001;\n“the appeal period” means the period of 14 days within which an appellant must file his notice of appeal against a decision of the Tribunal in accordance with the Civil Procedure Rules 1998;\n“the applicant Health Authority” means the Health Authority in England which made an application to the Tribunal which led to any Tribunal direction being made;\n“the effective date” is the date (being after the relevant date) which immediately follows—\n(a) the date on which an appeal period ended in respect of a local or national disqualification decision, or a paragraph 4(1) direction was given by the Tribunal without any appeal being filed,\n(b) the date on which any appeal was withdrawn,\n(c) the date on which a court upheld the Tribunal’s local or national disqualification decision or paragraph 4(1) direction on appeal,\nas the case may be;\n“the FHSAA” means the Family Health Services Appeal Authority constituted under section 49S of the National Health Service Act 1977;\n“the FHSAA Regulations” means the Family Health Services Appeal Authority (Primary Care Act) Regulations 2001;\n“a local disqualification decision” means a direction of the Tribunal under section 46(2)(a) of the 1977 Act in relation to a Health Authority in England to which section 47(1) of that Act applies;\n“a national disqualification decision” means a direction of the Tribunal under section 46(2)(b) of the 1977 Act to which section 47(1) of that Act applies;\n“the Order” means the Health and Social Care Act 2001 (Commencement No. 6) (England) Order 2001;\n“a paragraph 4(1) direction” means a direction given by the Tribunal under paragraph 4(1) of Schedule 1 to the Primary Care Act;\n“a paragraph 5 direction” means a direction given by the FHSAA under paragraph 5 of that Schedule that a direction given under paragraph 4(1) be terminated;\n“a pharmacist case” means a case before the Tribunal in relation to a person undertaking to provide pharmaceutical services under Part II of the 1977 Act;\n“the Primary Care Act” means the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997;\n“the relevant date” means—\n(a) 14th December 2001, or\n(b) in a pharmacist case, the date on which the first regulations made under section 42 of the 1977 Act as amended by section 20(6) of the 2001 Act come into force;\n“a review decision” means a decision by the Tribunal under section 47 not to direct that a disqualification be ended;\n“a suspension direction” means a direction of the Tribunal under section 49A(2) of the 1977 Act that subsection (3) of that section applies;\n“a suspension pending appeal direction” means a direction of the Tribunal under section 49B(1) of the 1977 Act; and\n“the Tribunal” means the tribunal constituted under section 46 of the 1977 Act.\n(2) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, a reference to—\n(a) a numbered regulation is to the regulation bearing that number; and\n(b) a numbered paragraph in a regulation is to the paragraph bearing that number in that regulation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1977 c. 49."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See RSC Order 94, rule 8(3), Schedule 1 to the Civil Procedure Rules 1998."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Section 49S was inserted into the National Health Service Act 1977 (c. 49) (“the 1977 Act”) by the Health and Social Care Act 2001, section 27(1)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "S.I. 2001/3743."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "S.I. 2001/3738 (c. 121)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "1997 c. 46."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f7",
      "text": "Section 49A was inserted into the 1977 Act by the National Health Service (Amendment) Act 1995 (c. 31) (“the 1995 Act”), section 2(1)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f8",
      "text": "Section 49B was inserted into the 1977 Act by the 1995 Act, section 2(1)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f9",
      "text": "Section 46 of the 1977 Act was amended by the Health and Social Security Act 1984 (c. 48), section 24 and Schedule 8, Part I, the Health Authorities Act 1995 (c. 17), section 2(1) and Schedule 1, paragraph 34 and by the 1995 Act, sections 1, 2(2) and 3(2). The Tribunal is abolished by the Health and Social Care Act 2001, section 16, with effect from 14th December 2001 subject to provision made by S.I. 2001/3738 (c. 121) article 2(5)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2002/2469",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 (Supplementary, Consequential etc. Provisions) Regulations 2002"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/3744/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:21:51.189579+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}