Article 76 Interpretation

In this Part–

• “appropriate Health Board” has the same meaning as in the Service Committees Regulations;

• “contracting Health Board” means a Health Board that has entered into a default contract or a general medical services contract (as the case may be) with–

  1. (a)

     a doctor who is the subject of the allegation;

  2. (b)

     a partnership, where a doctor who is the subject of the allegation is a partner;

  3. (c)

     a limited company, where a doctor who is the subject of the allegation is the legal and beneficial shareholder of shares in that company;

• “doctor” has the same meaning as in the Service Committees Regulations;

• “Performers List Health Board” means a Health Board in whose primary medical services performers list the doctor’s name appears on 1st April 2004 pursuant to article 86;

• “relevant contractor” means a party to a general medical services contract or default contract with a contracting Health Board, where that contractor is–

  1. (a)

     a doctor who is the subject of the allegation;

  2. (b)

     a partnership, where a doctor who is or was the subject of the allegation is a partner in that partnership;

  3. (c)

     a limited company, where a doctor who is or was the subject of the allegation is the legal and beneficial shareholder of shares in that company; and

• “relevant date” means 1st April 2004.

• “the Service Committees Regulations” means the National Health Service (Service Committees and Tribunal) (Scotland) Regulations 1992^f1;

Unless the context otherwise requires, any reference in this Part to–