{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-direct-payments-regulations-2013/regulation-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-direct-payments-regulations-2013/regulation-19.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2013/1617",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Direct Payments) Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-direct-payments-regulations-2013",
  "path": "regulation/19",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Transitional provision in respect of direct payments",
  "text": "(1) Any direct payment payable under a pilot scheme by a pilot health body immediately before 1st August 2013 is to be payable by the successor health body on and after that date.\n(2) These Regulations apply to a direct payment that is payable by a successor health body under paragraph (1).\n(3) Any act or omission by or in relation to a pilot health body before 1st August 2013 under or in connection with any provision of a pilot scheme or the 2010 Direct Payments Regulations is to be treated as an act or omission by or in relation to a successor health body.\n(4) Anything which is in the process of being done by or in relation to a pilot health body immediately before 1st August 2013 under or in connection with any provision of a pilot scheme or the 2010 Direct Payments Regulations is to be treated as done by or in relation to, and may be continued by or in relation to, a successor health body.\n(5) In this Regulation—\n“the 2010 Direct Payments Regulations” means the National Health Service (Direct Payments) Regulations 2010;\n“pilot health body” means a body which is a successor body within the meaning of paragraph 22 of Schedule 3 to the National Treatment Agency (Abolition) and Health and Social Care Act 2012 (Consequential, Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2012 to a Primary Care Trust in respect of which a pilot scheme has been made under the 2010 Direct Payments Regulations.\n“pilot scheme” means a pilot scheme under the 2010 Direct Payments Regulations;\n“successor health body” means the health body which, on or after 1st August 2013, has a duty to provide or arrange for the provision of the services which, immediately before 1st August 2013, are being secured for a patient by a direct payment under a pilot scheme.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 19 in force at 1.8.2013, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2010/1000. Regulations 1 to 5 and 7 to 20 were amended by, or affected by the provisions of, the National Treatment Agency (Abolition) and articles 11 and 12 of, and paragraph 154 of Schedule 2 and paragraph 22 of Schedule 3 to, the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (Consequential, Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/235)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2013/235."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/1617/regulation/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:49:14.753528+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}