Regulation 3 Health schemes

The schemes prescribed for the purposes of section 29(9) of the 1978 Act (definition of “health scheme”)^f1 are–

(a)

health services, including dental, medical and surgical treatment, provided by Her Majesty’s Forces;

(b)

services provided by port local authorities and joint port local authorities constituted under section 172 (constitution of port local authorities) of the Public Health (Scotland) Act 1897^f2;

(c)

health services provided to a prisoner in accordance with section 3A (medical services in prisons) of the Prisons (Scotland) Act 1989^f3; and

(d)

publicly-funded health services provided by or on behalf of any organisation anywhere in the world.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: Section 29(9) was substituted by the Health Act 1999 (c. 8), section 58.
f2: 1897 c. 38 (60 & 61 Vict.); section 172 was expanded by the Clean Air Act 1993 (c. 11), section 61(2).
f3: 1989 c. 45. Section 3A was inserted by the Crime and Punishment (Scotland) Act 1997 (c. 48), section 43 and amended by S.I. 1998/251, and the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46), Schedule 8, paragraph 27.