Article 3 Transfer of officers employed by Regional Health Authorities.

(1)

Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), any officer who is employed immediately before 1st April 1996 by a Regional Health Authority is transferred on that date to the employment of the Secretary of State.

(2)

Subject to paragraph (3), any officer of the grade of Senior Registrar, Registrar or Specialist Registrar who is employed immediately before 1st April 1996 by a Regional Health Authority is transferred on that date to the employment of the NHS trust on whose functions that officer was engaged to work immediately before that date.

(3)

Paragraphs (1) and (2) shall not apply to an officer who is—

(a)

transferred on 1st April by virtue of a scheme made under paragraph 7(1)(b) of Schedule 2 to the 1995 Act; or

(b)

a person to whom paragraph 7(3) of that Schedule (persons transferred to NHS trusts on 1st April 1996) applies.