{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-scotland-act-1978/section-17M",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-scotland-act-1978/section-17M.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1978/29",
  "legislation_title": "National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-scotland-act-1978",
  "path": "section/17M",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "17M",
  "heading": "Payments by Health Boards under general medical services contracts",
  "text": "(1) The Scottish Ministers may give directions as to payments to be made under general medical services contracts.\n(2) A general medical services contract must require payments to be made under it in accordance with directions for the time being in force under this section.\n(3) A direction under subsection (1) may in particular—\n(a) provide for payments to be made by reference to compliance with standards or the achievement of levels of performance;\n(b) provide for payments to be made by reference to—\n(i) any scheme or scale specified in the direction;\n(ii) a determination made by any person in accordance with factors specified in the direction;\n(c) provide for the making of payments in respect of individual practitioners;\n(d) provide that the whole or any part of a payment is subject to conditions (including a condition that the whole or any part of a payment is liable to be paid by a Health Board only if they are satisfied as to such conditions as may be specified in the direction);\n(e) make provision having effect from a date before the date of the direction, provided that, having regard to the direction as a whole, the provision is not detrimental to the persons to whose remuneration it relates.\n(4) Before giving a direction under subsection (1), the Scottish Ministers—\n(a) must consult any body appearing to them to be representative of persons to whose remuneration the direction would relate; and\n(b) may consult such other persons as they think appropriate.\n(5) References in this section to payments include fees, allowances, reimbursements, loans and repayments.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 17J-17O and cross-heading inserted (13.2.2004 for certain purposes otherwise 1.4.2004) by Primary Medical Services (Scotland) Act 2004 (asp 1), ss. 4, 9(1); S.S.I. 2004/58, art. 2(1)(3), Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1978/29/section/17M",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:30:48.038600+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."
}