The National Health Service (Family Practitioner Committees: Transitional) Regulations 1984
These regulations make provision arising out of the replacement of Family Practitioner Committees established or adopted by District Health Authorities (“old Committees”) by Committees established by the Secretary of State (“new Committees”). Under section 5 of the Health and Social Security Act 1984 (“the 1984 Act”) the new Committees will begin to act no later than 1st April 1985, and, until the new Committees begin to act, the old Committees continue to discharge their functions.