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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-service-committees-and-tribunal-regulations-1992/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1992/664",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Service Committees and Tribunal) Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-service-committees-and-tribunal-regulations-1992",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations supersede the National Health Service (Service Committees and Tribunal) Regulations 1974 (“the 1974 Regulations”) to provide for the investigation and determination by Family Health Services Authorities (“FHSAs”) and their committees, of questions whether doctors, dentists, chemists and opticians providing services under Part II of the National Health Service Act 1977 have failed to comply with their terms of service, and for the consideration and determination of related questions. The Regulations also provide for the determination of representations and applications to the National Health Service Tribunal (“the Tribunal”), and for appeals from determinations of FHSAs and the Tribunal.\nThese Regulations make provision which differs substantially from that made in the 1974 Regulations, in a number of respects. Provision for the constitution, jurisdiction, procedures and powers of denture conciliation committees is included with that governing service committees and the joint services committee of FHSAs (regulations 3 to 9 and Schedules 2 and 4). New provision is made for the procedure to be followed where the Secretary of State is considering whether an amount should be recovered from a practitioner in consequence of a breach of his terms of service (regulation 13 and Schedules 5 and 6), or whether a dentist who has been found in breach of his terms of service should be subject to a requirement to seek the prior approval of the Dental Practice Board before he may carry out certain descriptions of treatment (regulation 14 and Schedules 5 and 6). New procedural provision is made for the investigation and determination of questions as to the excessive prescribing of drugs and appliances by doctors, and also for appeals from such determinations (regulation 15). Provision hitherto made in the 1974 Regulations for the investigation of alleged excessive prescribing of optical appliances is not re-enacted in these Regulations.\nProvision is now made for the extension, by the FHSA, the Tribunal or the Secretary of State, of time limits imposed under the Regulations in relation to the making of appeals, the submission of observations, and other matters (regulation 35). Provision governing the procedure for the investigation of complaints and other matters by service committees, joint services committees and denture conciliation committees is revised (Schedule 4), and procedural provision for hearings of representations and applications to, and of appeals from, the Tribunal is set out in Schedule 9.\nOther provisions of these Regulations differ from those of the 1974 Regulations in minor respects, or in consequence of other changes which are mentioned above.\nThese Regulations, which come into force on 1st April 1992, make transitional provision in relation to the continued application of the 1974 Regulations to proceedings commenced under those Regulations before that date (regulation 38).",
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  "version": "current",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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