Explanatory Notes

Health and Social Care Act 2012

2012 CHAPTER 7

27 March 2012

Commentary on Sections

Part 3 - Regulation of Health and Adult Social Care Services

Chapter 5 – Health special administration
Section 131 - Transfer schemes

939.This section allows for health special administration regulations to make provision about the transfer of NHS services to another provider in order to achieve the objective of health special administration.

940.In particular, the regulations may include provision for the transfer of property, rights and liabilities, including the transfer of rights that individuals might have through their contracts of employment, to alternative providers. The regulations may also require that Monitor and relevant providers agree transfer schemes in individual cases, allow Monitor to modify a transfer scheme with the consent of the affected parties, and allow for modifications to a transfer scheme to have effect from a time specified by Monitor.