{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-schemes-amendment-regulations-2023/regulation-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-schemes-amendment-regulations-2023/regulation-19.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2023/301",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service Pension Schemes (Amendment) Regulations 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-schemes-amendment-regulations-2023",
  "path": "regulation/19",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Amendment of Schedule 15",
  "text": "(1) Schedule 15 (definitions) is amended as follows.\n(2) In the appropriate place, insert the following new expressions:\n(a) “primary care network” and for the corresponding entry in Column 2 insert “a network of primary medical services contractors and other providers of services which has been approved by the National Health Service Commissioning Board, serving an identified geographical area”;\n(b) “primary care network management company” and for the corresponding entry in Column 2 insert “a partnership or incorporated legal entity that is a party to a primary care network standard sub-contract and under which provides services to that network that are related to the management of that network”; and\n(c) “primary care network standard sub-contract” and for the corresponding entry in Column 2 insert “a sub-contract that complies with the National Health Service Commissioning Board’s template sub-contract, “Sub-contract for the provision of services related to the Network Contract Directed Enhanced Service 2022/23””.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 19 in force at 1.4.2023, see reg. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The Network Contract Directed Enhanced Service Contract Specification published on 31 March 2021, covering primary care networks is available at https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/network-contract-des-specification-2021-22 or hard copies are available from the Primary Care Strategy and NHS Contracts team, NHS England, Area 2D, Skipton House, 80 London Road, London, SE1 6LH."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "The subcontract for the provision of services related to the Network Contract Directed Enhanced Service 2022/23 published on 31 August 2022 is available at https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/subcontract-for-the-provision-of-services-related-to-the-network-contract-directed-enhanced-service-2022-23/ or hard copies are available from the Primary Care Strategy and NHS Contracts team, NHS England, Area 2D, Skipton House, 80 London Road, London, SE1 6LH."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2023/301/regulation/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:48:03.460491+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."
}