# The National Health Service (Direct Payments) Regulations 2013, Regulation 19: Transitional provision in respect of direct payments

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(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.
(2) These Regulations apply to a direct payment that is payable by a successor health body under paragraph (1).
(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.
(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.
(5) In this Regulation—
“the 2010 Direct Payments Regulations” means the National Health Service (Direct Payments) Regulations 2010;
“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.
“pilot scheme” means a pilot scheme under the 2010 Direct Payments Regulations;
“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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/1617/regulation/19 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-direct-payments-regulations-2013/regulation-19
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