Regulation 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (Property Expenses Scheme) Regulations 1999, and shall come into force on 1st April 1999.

In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires–

• “the Act” means the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990;

• “an eligible body” means a body of a kind described in regulation 3;

• “member” means an eligible body which is a member of the Scheme;

• “membership year” means, in relation to an eligible body, any period of 12 months beginning on 1st April during any part of which that body is a member of the Scheme;

• “preceding year” means, in relation to a membership year, the period of 12 months immediately preceding that membership year;

• “qualifying expense” means an expense of a kind described in regulation 4(1) and (2);

• “relevant function” means the function of providing services in England for the purposes of the National Health Service Act 1977 or by virtue of section 7 of the Health and Medicines Act 1988^f1 or under paragraph 14 or 15 of Schedule 2 to the Act;

• “the Scheme” means the Property Expenses Scheme established by regulation 2.

In these Regulations, a reference to a numbered regulation is a reference to the regulation which bears that number in these Regulations, and a reference in a regulation to a numbered paragraph is a reference to the paragraph which bears that number in that regulation.