Paragraph 1

for the definition of “practitioner” there is substituted—

• ““practitioner” means—

  1. (a)

     a registered medical practitioner, other than a trainee practitioner, who is an assistant practitioner, an associate general practitioner, a locum practitioner (other than a person treated as an officer under regulation R11), a principal practitioner or a person who is treated as a practitioner under regulation R11 (participators in pilot schemes), or

  2. (b)

     a registered dentist, other than a person who is paid wholly by way of salary by a National Health Service Trust, a Primary Care Trust or a Health Authority or a person treated as an officer under regulation R11;”.

the following definitions are inserted in alphabetical order at the appropriate places—