{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-trusts-consultation-on-establishment-and-dissolution-regulations-2010/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-trusts-consultation-on-establishment-and-dissolution-regulations-2010/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2010/743",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service Trusts (Consultation on Establishment and Dissolution) Regulations 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-trusts-consultation-on-establishment-and-dissolution-regulations-2010",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Consultation relating to transfer orders",
  "text": "(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—\n(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 each relevant Local Healthwatch organisation and staff interests; or\n(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 each relevant Local Healthwatch organisation and staff interests.\n(2) Where an NHS trust consults a Local 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.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 in force at 1.7.2010, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/743/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:48:15.602751+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."
}