# The National Health Service (Pilot Schemes: Part II Practitioners) Regulations 1998, Regulation 1: Citation, commencement and interpretation


(1) These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (Pilot Schemes: Part II Practitioners) Regulations 1998 and shall come into force on 1st April 1998.
(2) In these Regulations—
(a) “normal hours” means such days and times as may be specified in a pilot scheme as the days on which and times at which a doctor will normally be available to perform personal medical services;
“pilot scheme provider” means a person, other than an authority, who is a party to a pilot scheme; and
(b) “Part II practitioner” and “pilot scheme practitioner” have the meanings respectively assigned to them in section 15(3) of the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997, but for the purposes of these Regulations a Part II practitioner who performs personal medical services in any of the circumstances mentioned in regulation 2(2) is not a “pilot scheme practitioner”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/665/regulation/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pilot-schemes-part-ii-practitioners-regulations-1998/regulation-1
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