# The Local Involvement Networks Regulations 2008, Paragraph 6: The National Health Service (Complaints) Regulations 2004

Extent: E+W
Status: prospective

(1) The National Health Service (Complaints) Regulations 2004 are amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 2 (interpretation), in paragraph (1) omit the definitions of “patients’ forum” and “relevant patients’ forum”.
(3) In regulation 20 (publicity)—
(a) in paragraph (2), for “Each” substitute “Subject to paragraph (4), each”; and
(b) for paragraph (3)(f) substitute—
“(f) any relevant local involvement network.
(4) Paragraph (2) does not apply to a Special Health Authority.
(5) In this regulation—
(a) “relevant local authority” means—
(i) where the NHS body is a Strategic Health Authority, a local authority whose area falls, wholly or partly, within the area of the Strategic Health Authority;
(ii) where the NHS body is a Primary Care Trust, a local authority whose area falls, wholly or partly, within the area of the Primary Care Trust;
(iii) where the NHS body is an NHS trust, a local authority in whose area any hospital or other establishment or facility of that NHS trust is situated;
(b) “relevant local involvement network” means a person who in pursuance of arrangements made by a relevant local authority under section 221(1) of the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007 is to carry on activities specified in section 221(2) of that Act.”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/528/schedule/paragraph/6 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/local-involvement-networks-regulations-2008/schedule/paragraph-6
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