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Regulation 3 Consultation relating to transfer ordersI1

England and Wales

(1)

Subject to regulation 4(3), for the purposes of paragraph 29(4) of the Schedule (transfer of property and liabilities on dissolution of an NHS trust), the prescribed consultation which must be completed before the Secretary of State may make a transfer order is—

(a)

where the dissolution order in respect of that NHS trust is to be made pursuant to paragraph 28(2)(a) of the Schedule, consultation by that NHS trust with F1each relevant Local Healthwatch organisation and staff interests; or

(b)

where the dissolution order in respect of that NHS trust is to be made pursuant to paragraph 28(2)(b) of the Schedule, consultation by the Secretary of State with F2each relevant Local Healthwatch organisation and staff interests.

(2)

Where an NHS trust consults a F3Local Healthwatch organisation in pursuance of paragraph (1)(a), it must report the results of that consultation to the Secretary of State within such period as the Secretary of State may determine.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Words in reg. 3(1)(a) substituted (1.4.2013) by The National Treatment Agency (Abolition) and the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (Consequential, Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/235), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 149(4)(a)

F2

Words in reg. 3(1)(b) substituted (1.4.2013) by The National Treatment Agency (Abolition) and the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (Consequential, Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/235), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 149(4)(b)

F3

Words in reg. 3(2) substituted (1.4.2013) by The National Treatment Agency (Abolition) and the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (Consequential, Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/235), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 149(4)(c)

Commencement

I1

Reg. 3 in force at 1.7.2010, see reg. 1(1)