{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-scotland-act-1978/section-29B",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-scotland-act-1978/section-29B.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/29B",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "29B",
  "heading": "Powers of NHS Tribunal.",
  "text": "(1) Subsection (2) applies where the Tribunal are of the opinion—\n(a) on inquiring into an efficiency case, that the person meets the first condition for disqualification;\n(b) on inquiring into a fraud case, that the person meets the second condition for disqualification;\n(c) on inquiring into an unsuitability case, that the person meets the third condition for disqualification.\n(2) The Tribunal shall disqualify him for inclusion in—\n(a) the list to which the case relates;\n(b) all lists within the same paragraph of subsection (8) of section 29 as that list; and\n(c) where the list to which the case relates is a list referred to in—\n(i) paragraph (c) of that subsection, all lists within paragraph (cc) of that subsection;\n(ii) that paragraph (cc), all lists within that paragraph (c).\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) The Tribunal shall not make a disqualification . . . under this section if they are of the opinion that it would be unjust to do so.\n(5) A disqualification under this section shall have effect when the case is finally concluded.\n(6) If a person is disqualified for inclusion in any list prepared by a Health Board, the Board must not enter him in the list and (if he is already included in the list) must remove him from the list.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 29, 29A-29C substituted for s. 29 (31.1.2004 for certain purposes and otherwise 4.3.2004) by 1999 c. 8, ss. 58(1), 67(1); S.S.I. 2004/32, art. 2(1)(2) (with savings for effect of 1999 c. 58 by S.S.I. 2004/31, art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Ss. 29, 29A-29C and sidenotes substituted for s. 29 and sidenote (31.1.2004 for certain purposes otherwise 4.3.2004) by 1999 c. 8, ss. 58(1), 67(1); S.S.I. 2004/32, art. 2(1)(2) (with savings for effect of 1999 c. 58 by S.S.I. 2004/31, art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 29B(1)(c) inserted (7.3.2006 for certain purposes otherwise 1.4.2006) by Smoking, Health and Social Care (Scotland) Act 2005 (asp 13), ss. 26(4)(a), 43(3); S.S.I. 2006/121, art. 3(a)(b), Schs. 1, 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 29B(2) substituted (7.3.2006 and 1.4.2006 for certain purposes and otherwise prosp.) by Smoking, Health and Social Care (Scotland) Act 2005 (asp 13), ss. 26(4)(b), 43(3); S.S.I. 2006/121, art. 3(a)(b), Schs. 1, 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 29B(3) repealed (1.4.2006) by Smoking, Health and Social Care (Scotland) Act 2005 (asp 13), ss. 42(2), 43(3), Sch. 3; S.S.I. 2006/121, art. 3(b), Sch. 2 Table"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Word in s. 29B(4) substituted (7.3.2006 for certain purposes and otherwise 1.4.2006) by Smoking, Health and Social Care (Scotland) Act 2005 (asp 13), ss. 26(4)(c), 43(3); S.S.I. 2006/121, art. 3(a)(b), Schs. 1, 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in s. 29B(4) repealed (1.4.2006) by Smoking, Health and Social Care (Scotland) Act 2005 (asp 13), ss. 42(2), 43(3), Sch. 3; S.S.I. 2006/121, art. 3(b), Sch. 2 Table"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1978/29/section/29B",
    "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."
}