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Article 10 Investigation of other complaints.

Original text. Later amendments are not shown.

(1)

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.

(2)

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—

(a)

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

(b)

a Regional Health Authority,

shall be dealt with by the relevant new authority.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1

1985 c. 42. Section 1 is amended by the Health Authorities Act 1995 (C.17), paragraph 109 Schedule 1.