{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-service-committees-and-tribunal-regulations-1992/schedule-4/paragraph-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-service-committees-and-tribunal-regulations-1992/schedule-4/paragraph-9.json",
  "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",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/9",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Schedule, unless the context otherwise requires—\n(a) “lay member” and “professional person” have the meanings given to them in paragraph 8 of Schedule 2;\n(b) “relevant practitioner” means where the practitioner is—\n(i) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(ii) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(iii) an optician or ophthalmic medical practitioner, an ophthalmic medical practitioner or optician,\n(iv) a pharmacist, a pharmacist;\n(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(d) “parties” means the practitioner, the appropriate Health Authority or Primary Care Trust and any person treated as a party pursuant to paragraph 2(3).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regulations revoked (E.) by The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/1909), reg. 1, Sch. 8 para. 1(1)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 4 substituted (1.4.1996) by The National Health Service (Service Committees and Tribunal) Amendment Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/703), regs. 1, 13"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 9(b)(i) omitted (E.) (1.4.2004) by virtue of The General Medical Services and Personal Medical Services Transitional and Consequential Provisions Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/865), art. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 10(o)(ii) (with arts. 94-104); and omitted (W.) (1.4.2004) by virtue of The General Medical Services Transitional and Consequential Provisions (Wales) (No. 2) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/1016), art. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 10(1)(o)(ii) (with arts. 71, 72)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 9(b)(ii) omitted (E.) (1.4.2006) by virtue of The General Dental Services, Personal Dental Services and Abolition of the Dental Practice Board Transitional and Consequential Provisions Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/562), art. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 3(14)(b) (with arts. 31-37); and omitted (W.) (1.4.2006) by virtue of The General Dental Services and Personal Dental Services Transitional and Consequential Provisions (Wales) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/946), art. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 2(14)(b) (with arts. 31-37)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 9(c) omitted (E.) (1.4.2004) by virtue of The General Medical Services and Personal Medical Services Transitional and Consequential Provisions Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/865), art. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 10(o)(ii) (with arts. 94-104); and omitted (W.) (1.4.2004) by virtue of The General Medical Services Transitional and Consequential Provisions (Wales) (No. 2) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/1016), art. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 10(1)(o)(ii) (with arts. 71, 72)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 4 inserted (1.10.2002) by The National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 (Supplementary, Consequential etc. Provisions) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/2469), regs. 1, 8, Sch. 5 (with Sch. 12 Pts. 1, 2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/664/schedule/4/paragraph/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:25:31.699231+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."
}