# The National Health Service (Existing Liabilities Scheme) (Amendment) Regulations 1997, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the National Health Service (Existing Liabilities Scheme) Regulations 1996 (“the principal Regulations”) which established a Scheme whereby bodies providing services under the National Health Service Act 1977 may make provision for meeting liabilities incurred before 1st April 1995 to third parties in connection with personal injury arising out of negligence in the carrying out of functions under that Act.
The definition of “relevant function” in regulation 1(2) of the principal Regulations (interpretation) is amended to include, among the services to which the Scheme applies, services provided in exercise of an eligible body’s powers of income generation (regulation 2). Regulation 6 of the principal Regulations (payments under the Scheme) is amended to make provision in relation to payments under the Scheme in connection with legal and other costs, and where an eligible body has agreed to be bound by the decision of an arbitrator in connection with a claim against the body in relation to a liability to which the Scheme applies.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/526/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-existing-liabilities-scheme-amendment-regulations-1997/note
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