Article 10 Investigation of other complaints.
Any complaint made or any matter referred before 1st April 1996 under Part II of the Service Committees Regulations to a Family Health Services Authority but not disposed of by that date shall continue to be investigated by the relevant new authority as if any reference in those Regulations to a Family Health Services Authority were a reference to a Health Authority, and the appropriate committee under regulation 4 of those Regulations may continue to investigate such a complaint or, as the case may be, such a matter, as if that committee were a committee of the relevant new authority.
Any complaint made before 1st April 1996 under section 1 of the Hospital Complaints Procedure Act 1985f1 , but not disposed of before that date, in relation to a hospital managed by—
an old authority specified in column (1) in Part I or II of Schedule 1, or in Part I or II of Schedule 2; or
a Regional Health Authority,
shall be dealt with by the relevant new authority.
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1985 c. 42. Section 1 is amended by the Health Authorities Act 1995 (C.17), paragraph 109 Schedule 1.