Explanatory note

These Regulations amend the National Health Service Trusts (Consultation on Dissolution) Regulations 1991 (“the principal Regulations”) to provide for the consultation required before the Secretary of State makes an order under paragraph 30 of Schedule 2 to the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 in connection with the transfer of the property, rights and liabilities, including staff, of a National Health Service trust which is to be dissolved.

The principal Regulations provide for consultation required before the Secretary of State makes an order dissolving an NHS trust. These Regulations amend regulation 2 of the principal Regulations to provide that consultation on the transfer of property, rights and liabilities should be subject to the same requirements as that consultation, may be combined with that consultation and must be with the same persons or bodies, with the addition of “staff interests”, a definition of which is inserted by these Regulations in to regulation 1 of the principal Regulations.