The National Health Service (Compensation) Amendment Regulations 1981

Made: 30th December 1981

Laid before Parliament: 11th January 1982

Coming into Operation: 1st February 1982

The Secretary of State for Social Services, in exercise of powers conferred on him by section 24(1) and (3) of the Superannuation Act 1972 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, with the consent of the Treasury[^f00001], hereby makes the following regulations:—

Citation and commencement

1

These regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (Compensation) Amendment Regulations 1981 and shall come into operation on 1st February 1982.

Amendment of the National Health Service (Compensation) Regulations 1974

2

The following sub-paragraph shall be inserted after regulation 3(2)(c) of the National Health Service (Compensation) Regulations 1974:—

(d) to a person in respect of any employment from which he is transferred or retired in consequence of the abolition after 1st February 1982 of a preserved Board within the meaning of section 15(6) of the National Health Service Reorganisation Act 1973[^f00002].

Signed

Norman Fowler — Secretary of State for Social Services — 14th December 1981

We consent.

John Selwyn Gummer — Tony Newton — Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury — 30th December 1981

Explanatory note

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These regulations amend the National Health Service (Compensation) Regulations 1974 so that they do not apply to persons transferred or retired in consequence of the abolition of a “preserved Board” after 1st February 1982. For this purpose a “preserved Board” means a Board of Governors of a post graduate London teaching hospital which has been preserved from abolition by section 15 of the National Health Service Reorganisation Act 1973.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: See the Transfer of Functions (Minister for the Civil Service and Treasury) Order 1981 (S.I. 1981/1670), Article 3(5).

[^f00002]: 1973 c. 32.