The National Health Service (Pilot Schemes—Health Service Bodies) Regulations 1997
Section 16 of the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997 provides for the Secretary of State 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 service body. The effect of having that status is that contracts entered into with other health service bodies will be NHS contracts under section 4 of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 and section 17A of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978.