Regulation 10 Interpretation: Part 3

In this Part—

• “the Service Committees Regulations” means the National Health Service (Service Committees and Tribunal) Regulations 1992^f1;

• “amendments” in respect of any regulation in the Service Committees Regulations means amendments made to that regulation by paragraph 3 of Schedule 1 to this Order;

• “appropriate PCT” means the appropriate Primary Care Trust within the meaning of regulation 4(5) of the Service Committees Regulations;

• “contracting PCT” means a PCT that has entered into a general ophthalmic services contract with—

  1. (a)

     an ophthalmic practitioner who is the subject of the allegation,

  2. (b)

     a partnership, where an ophthalmic practitioner who is the subject of the allegation is a partner, or

  3. (c)

     a corporate body, where an ophthalmic practitioner who is the subject of the allegation is a director, chief executive or secretary of that body;

• “the Performers List PCT” means the PCT (if any) in whose ophthalmic performers list the ophthalmic practitioner’s name appears on 1st August 2008;

• “Performers Lists Regulations” means the National Health Service (Performers Lists) Regulations 2004^f2;

• “relevant contractor” means a party to a general ophthalmic services contract with a contracting PCT, where that contractor is—

  1. (a)

     an ophthalmic practitioner who is the subject of the allegation;

  2. (b)

     a partnership, where an ophthalmic practitioner who is or was the subject of the allegation is a partner in that partnership; or

  3. (c)

     a corporate body, where an ophthalmic practitioner who is or was the subject of the allegation is a director, chief executive or secretary of that body;

• “relevant date” means 1st August 2008,

Unless the context otherwise requires, any reference in this Part to—