Health Service Commissioners (Amendment) Act 2000
The Health Service Commissioners Act 1993 is amended as follows.
In section 2A (health service providers subject to investigation)—
in subsection (1) after the words “if they are” there is inserted “ or were at the time of the action complained of ”;
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In section 2B (independent providers subject to investigation)—
in paragraph (a) of subsection (1) after the words “they are” there is inserted “ or were at the time of the action complained of ”;
in paragraph (b) of subsection (1) after the words “they are not” there is inserted “ or were not at the time of the action complained of ”;
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In section 9 of the Health Service Commissioners Act 1993 (requirements to be complied with), after subsection (4) there is inserted—
Where before the coming into force of this Act a complaint has been made to a Health Service Commissioner which he has declined to entertain on the ground that the person complained against— the amendments made by this Act do not enable that complaint to be revived, or a new complaint arising out of the same matters to be entertained.
was no longer of a description set out in section 2A(1) or (2) of the Health Service Commissioners Act 1993, or
no longer fell within section 2B(1) or (2) of that Act,
This Act may be cited as the Health Service Commissioners (Amendment) Act 2000.
This Act shall come into force at the end of the period of three months beginning with the day on which it is passed.
This Act does not extend to Northern Ireland.