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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/primary-care-trusts-establishment-and-dissolution-england-order-2006/article-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2006/2072",
  "legislation_title": "The Primary Care Trusts (Establishment and Dissolution) (England) Order 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/primary-care-trusts-establishment-and-dissolution-england-order-2006",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Primary Care Trusts (Establishment and Dissolution) (England) Order 2006 and shall come into force on 1st October 2006.\n(2) In this Order—\n“Act” means the National Health Service Act 1977;\n“assessment panel” means a committee or a sub-committee of a Primary Care Trust (other than the Primary Care Trust which is party to the contract in question) appointed to exercise functions pursuant to paragraphs 31 (rejection of closure notice by the Primary Care Trust) and 35 (assignments to closed lists: determination of the assessment panel) of Schedule 6 to the GMS Regulations, or paragraphs 30 (rejection of closure notice) and 34 (assignments to closed lists: determination of the assessment panel) of Schedule 5 to the PMS Regulations;\n“corresponding list” means a list maintained on and after the operational date by a new PCT that corresponds to an old list of the same type;\n“dispensing doctor list” means a list maintained by an old PCT pursuant to section 43 of the Act (persons authorised to provide pharmaceutical services) immediately before the operational date;\n“dividing PCTs” means Cherwell Vale Primary Care Trust, Morecambe Bay Primary Care Trust, Poole Primary Care Trust, Preston Primary Care Trust, South Peterborough Primary Care Trust and Waveney Primary Care Trust;\n“GMS Regulations” means the National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) Regulations 2004;\n“local representative committee” means a Local Optical Committee or Local Pharmaceutical Committee recognised by a Primary Care Trust pursuant to section 44 of the Act, a Local Medical Committee recognised by a Primary Care Trust pursuant to section 45A of the Act, or a Local Dental Committee recognised by a Primary Care Trust pursuant to section 45B of the Act;\n“new PCTs” means the Primary Care Trusts established by article 3;\n“old list” means a dispensing doctor list, an ophthalmic list, an opthalmic supplementary list, a performers list or a pharmaceutical list;\n“old PCTs” means—\n(a) the Primary Care Trusts which are listed in column (1) of Schedule 2; and\n(b) the dividing PCTs;\n“ongoing matter” has the meaning given in article 9(1) and (2);\n“operational date” means 1st October 2006;\n“ophthalmic list” means a list maintained by an old PCT pursuant to section 39 of the Act (regulations as to section 38) immediately before the operational date;\n“ophthalmic supplementary list” means a list maintained by an old PCT pursuant to section 43D of the Act (supplementary lists) immediately before the operational date;\n“performers list” means a list maintained by an old PCT pursuant to section 28X of the Act (persons performing primary medical and dental services) immediately before the operational date;\n“pharmaceutical list” means a list maintained by an old PCT pursuant to section 42 of the Act (regulations as to pharmaceutical services) immediately before the operational date;\n“Pharmaceutical Services Regulations” means the the National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) Regulations 2005;\n“PMS Regulations” means the National Health Service (Personal Medical Services Agreements) Regulations 2004;\n“practitioner” means a person whose name was, immediately before the operational date, included in an old list;\n“relevant new PCT” means—\n(a) in relation to any old PCT specified in column (1) of Schedule 2, the new PCT which is specified in column (2) of that Schedule in relation to that old PCT; and\n(b) in relation to the dividing PCTs, “relevant new PCT” has the meaning given in article 2; and\n“Service Committees and Tribunal Regulations” means the National Health Service (Service Committees and Tribunal) Regulations 1992.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 43 was amended by section 2(1) of, and paragraph 31 of Schedule 1 to, the Health Authorities Act 1995 (c. 17) (“the 1995Act”), section 2(5) of, and paragraphs 1 and 17 of Part 1 of Schedule 2 to, the 2002 Act, section 21 of the Health Services Act 1980 (c. 53) (“the 1980 Act”), section 184 of, and paragraphs 7 and 19 of Schedule 11 to, the 2003 Act, sections 29(1) and 41(10) of, and paragraph 14 of Schedule 2 to, the 1997 Act, sections 20(1), (7) and 42(2) of the 2001 Act, section 66(1) of, and paragraph 18(2) of Schedule 9 to, the 1990 Act, and by section 1 of, and paragraph 6 of the Schedule to, the Pharmacists (Fitness to Practise) Act 1997 (c. 19)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2004/291, as amended by S.I. 2004/906, 2005/28, 2005/893, 2005/3315, 2005/3491 and 2006/1501."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Section 44 was amended by sections 184 and 196 of, and paragraphs 7 and 21 of Schedule 11 to, and Part 4 of Schedule 14 to, the 2003 Act, sections 5(1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7) and 37(2) of, and Part I of Schedule 9 to, the 2002 Act, sections 11(1), (2), (3), (4) and 65 of, and Schedule 5 to, the 1999 Act, regulation 19 of the National Health Service (Local Pharmaceutical Services Etc) Regulations S.I. 2002/2861, section 12(4) of the 1990 Act, section 24 of, and Part I of Schedule 8 to, the Health and Social Security Act 1984 (c. 48) (“the 1984 Act”), section 2(1) of, and paragraph 32(a) of Schedule 1 to, the 1995 Act, and by sections 43(6) and 67(1) of, and paragraphs 5(1) and (7)(b) and (c) of Part I of Schedule 5 to, and Part I of Schedule 6 to, the 2001 Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Section 45A was inserted by section 184 of, and paragraphs 7 and 23 of Schedule 11 to, the 2003 Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "Section 45B was inserted by section 184 of, and paragraphs 7 and 23 of Schedule 11 to, the 2003 Act, to which there are amendments not relevant to this Order."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "Section 39 was amended by sections 20(1), (5), 23(1) and (4) of the 2001 Act, section 2(5) of, and paragraphs 1 and 12 of Part I of Schedule 2 to, the 2002 Act, section 9(4) of the 1999 Act, sections 1 and 2 of, and paragraph 52 of Part I of Schedule 1 to, the 1980 Act, sections 1 and 24 of, and Part I of Schedule 1 to, and Part I of Schedule 8 to, the 1984 Act, and by section 2(1) of, and paragraph 28 of Schedule 1 to, the 1995 Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f7",
      "text": "Section 43D was inserted by section 24 of the 2001 Act and amended by section 2(5) of, and paragraphs 1 and 20 of Part I of Schedule 2 to, the 2002 Act, and by sections 184 and 196 of, and paragraphs 7 and 20 of Schedule 11 to, and Part 4 of Schedule 14 to, the 2003 Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f8",
      "text": "Section 28X was inserted by section 179(1) of the 2003 Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f9",
      "text": "Section 42 was substituted by section 3(1) of the National Health Service (Amendment) Act 1986 (c. 66) and amended by section 2(5) of, and paragraphs 1 and 16 of Part I of Schedule 2 to, the 2002 Act, section 2(1) of, and paragraphs 30(a)(i), (b)(i) and (iii), (c)(i), (iii) and (iv) of Schedule 1 to, the 1995 Act, sections 20(1), (6), 23(1), (5), 40(3), 43(2), (3), (4) and 67(2) of, and Part 1 of Schedule 6 to, the 2001 Act, article 4 of the Pharmaceutical Qualifications (EEC Recognition) Order S.I. 1987/2202, and by section 12(3) of the 1990 Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f10",
      "text": "S.I. 2005/641, as amended by S.I. 2005/1015, 2005/1501, 2005/3315, 2005/3491, 2006/552, 2006/562, 2006/913, 2006/1056 and 2006/1501."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f11",
      "text": "S.I. 2004/627, as amended by S.I. 2004/906, 2004/2694, 2005/28, 2005/893, 2005/3315, 2005/3491 and 2006/1501."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f12",
      "text": "S.I. 1992/664; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1996/703, 2002/2469, 2004/865."
    }
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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