Regulation 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1)

These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service Contracts (Dispute Resolution) Regulations 1996 and shall come into force on 1st April 1996.

(2)

In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires —

“the Act” means the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990;
“adjudicator” means a person appointed under section 4(5) of the Act;
“party” means—
1. (a)
  
  in relation to a reference under section 4(3) of the Act, a party to the NHS contract to which the reference relates, and
2. (b)
  
  in relation to a reference under section 4(4) of the Act, a health service body^f1 which is a prospective party to the proposed NHS contract to which the reference relates.

(3)

Any notice or other document required or authorised to be given under these Regulations—

(a)

to a health service body, other than a recognised fund-holding practice, may be given by delivering it to the principal office of that body, or by sending it by post in a pre-paid envelope addressed to that body at its principal office;

(b)

to a recognised fund-holding practice may be given by delivering it to the address given as that of any of the members of the practice in any medical list in which he is included or by sending it by post in a pre-paid envelope addressed to any of the members of the practice at the address given as his address in any medical list in which he is included.

(4)

In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to a numbered regulation is to the regulation bearing that number in these Regulations, and any reference in a regulation to a numbered paragraph is to the paragraph bearing that number in that regulation.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: See paragraph 68 of Schedule 1 to the Health Authorities Act 1995 (c. 17) which amends the definition of “health service body” in section 4(2) of the Act, with effect from 1st April 1996.