The National Health Service Commissioning Board and Clinical Commissioning Groups (Responsibilities and Standing Rules) (Amendment) Regulations 2016

These Regulations make amendments to regulations 11A, 14 and 16 of, and Schedule 4 to, the National Health Service Commissioning Board and Clinical Commissioning Groups (Responsibilities and Standing Rules) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/2996) (“the principal Regulations”) which require the National Health Service Commissioning Board (“the Board”) to make arrangements for the provision, as part of the health service, of specified services or facilities to specified people or groups of people, and which impose a duty to provide after-care services under section 117(2) of the Mental Health Act 1983 (“the 1983 Act”) on a clinical commissioning group (“CCG”) other than the one which would be under that duty by virtue of that section.