# The National Health Service (Injury Benefits) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1998, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the National Health Service (Injury Benefits) Regulations 1995 (“the principal Regulations”), which provide for the payment, by the Secretary of State for Health, of injury benefits to or in respect of any person engaged in the National Health Service in England and Wales whose earning ability is reduced or who dies as a result of an injury suffered or a disease contracted in the course of his or her duties.
Regulation 3 amends the interpretation provisions in regulation 2 of the principal Regulations and adds further definitions concerned with the introduction of piloted dental services under the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997.
Regulation 4 amends regulation 3 of the principal Regulations to provide for how the principal Regulations apply to persons involved in the operation of dental pilot schemes.
Regulation 5 amends regulation 4A of the principal Regulations to provide for how the costs of providing injury benefits to those eligible persons involved in the operation of dental pilot schemes are to be met.
These Regulations do not impose any costs on business.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/2217/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-injury-benefits-amendment-no-2-regulations-1998/note
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