{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-scotland-regulations-2015/regulation-152",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-scotland-regulations-2015/regulation-152.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2015/94",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service Pension Scheme (Scotland) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-scotland-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/152",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "152",
  "heading": "Medical practitioner",
  "text": "(1) References to a medical practitioner must be construed in accordance with this regulation.\n(2) A medical practitioner is a fully registered person—\n(a) whose name is included in a medical performers list; and\n(b) to whom any of paragraphs (3) to (6) apply.\n(3) This paragraph applies to—\n(a) a GMS practice;\n(b) a Section 17C Agreement provider;\n(c) an HBPMS contractor; or\n(d) an OOH provider.\n(4) This paragraph applies to a partner in a partnership that is—\n(a) a GMS practice;\n(b) a Section 17C Agreement provider;\n(c) an HBPMS contractor; or\n(d) an OOH provider.\n(5) This paragraph applies to a shareholder in a company limited by shares that is—\n(a) a GMS practice;\n(b) a Section 17C Agreement provider; or\n(c) an HBPMS contractor.\n(6) This paragraph applies to an ophthalmic provider.\n(7) A person who is a GP registrar is not a medical practitioner.\n(8) A reference to a fully registered person must be construed in accordance with section 55 of the Medical Act 1983 .\n(9) An ophthalmic provider is a medical practitioner providing general ophthalmic services under the 1978 Act.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in reg. 152(2)(b) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.S.I.) by The National Health Service Pension Scheme (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2016 (S.S.I. 2016/97), regs. 1(1), 10"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1983 c.54."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2015/94/regulation/152",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:30:41.764515+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}