Regulation 2 Amendment to Part 1 (General)

(1)

Part 1 of the 2010 Regulations is amended as follows.

(2)

In regulation 1(2)—

(a)

for the definition “NHS body” substitute—

““NHS body” means any of the bodies listed in paragraphs 1 to 6, 15 to 17 and 25C of the Schedule to these Regulations;”;

(b)

in the appropriate places insert—

““the Board” means the National Health Service Commissioning Board^f1;

“sufficient number of responsible officers” means the number of responsible officers required to ensure that each responsible officer appointed under regulation 5(2) has the capacity to carryout their responsibilities in regulations 11 and 13.”.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: The National Health Service Commissioning Board was established by section 1H of the National Health Service Act 2006 (c. 41) as inserted by section 9 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c. 7).