# The Strategic Health Authorities (Consultation on Changes) Regulations 2003, Regulation 2: Consultation requirements for Strategic Health Authority Orders


(1) For the purposes of section 8(5) of the Act, the prescribed consultation which must be completed before the Secretary of State may make a Strategic Health Authority Order is—
(a) consultation by the Strategic Health Authority which is the subject of the proposed Order; or
(b) in the case of an Order to establish a new Strategic Health Authority, by any Strategic Health Authority which would be abolished or varied as a result of the proposed Order,
with the bodies listed in paragraph (2).
(2) The bodies referred to in paragraph (1) are—
(a) any Primary Care Trust whose area falls, wholly or partly, within the area of the Strategic Health Authority;
(b) any NHS trust which provides goods or services to persons for whom a Primary Care Trust, whose area falls wholly or partly within the area of the Strategic Health Authority, is responsible, unless the amount of goods or level of services is, in the opinion of the Strategic Health Authority, not significant;
(c) any local authority whose area falls, wholly or partly, within the area of the Strategic Health Authority;
(d) any overview and scrutiny committee (including any joint overview and scrutiny committee) of a local authority whose area falls, wholly or partly, within the area of the Strategic Health Authority;
(e) the Commission for Patient and Public Involvement in Health;
(f) any Patients' Forum established for a Primary Care Trust or for a NHS trust with which consultation is required under sub-paragraph (a) or (b);
(g) any Community Health Council whose area falls, wholly or partly, within the area of the Strategic Health Authority;
(h) such voluntary organisations as appear to the Strategic Health Authority to represent the interests of persons who are provided with health services under the 1977 Act in its area; and
(i) such other persons as the Strategic Health Authority considers appropriate.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/1617/regulation/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/strategic-health-authorities-consultation-on-changes-regulations-2003/regulation-2
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