The Health Services (Pilot Schemes – Health Services Bodies) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998
Article 17 of the Health Services (Primary Care) (Northern Ireland) Order 1997 provides for the Department of Health and Social Services to grant applications made by those who are to provide (or who are providing) services under a pilot scheme to be given the status of a health services body. The effect of having that status is that contracts entered into with other health services bodies will be HSS contracts under Article 8 of the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1991.