{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-public-services-ombudsman-act-2002/schedule-2/paragraph-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-public-services-ombudsman-act-2002/schedule-2/paragraph-5.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2002/11",
  "legislation_title": "Scottish Public Services Ombudsman Act 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-public-services-ombudsman-act-2002",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Any person who is, or was at the time of the matter complained of, a family health service provider, that is to say—\n(a) a person (whether an individual or a body) providing primary medical services under a general medical services contract (within the meaning of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978) or general dental services under Part II of that Act,\n(b) a person (whether an individual or a body) undertaking to provide in Scotland general ophthalmic services or pharmaceutical services under that Part of that Act, or\n(c) an individual performing in Scotland primary medical services or personal dental services in accordance with—\n(i) arrangements made under section 17C of that Act, or\n(ii) a pilot scheme under Part I of the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997 (c.46),\n(except as an employee of, or otherwise on behalf of, a health service body or an independent provider).",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 5(a) substituted (1.4.2004) by Primary Medical Services (Scotland) Act 2004 (asp 1), s. 9(1), sch. para. 4(2)(a); S.S.I. 2004/58, art. 2(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in sch. 2 para. 5(c) substituted (1.4.2004) by Primary Medical Services (Scotland) Act 2004 (asp 1), s. 9(1), sch. para. 4(2)(b); S.S.I. 2004/58, art. 2(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "asp/2009/12",
      "affecting_title": "Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009"
    },
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "asp/2004/7",
      "affecting_title": "National Health Service Reform (Scotland) Act 2004"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "asp/2025/12",
      "affecting_title": "Victims, Witnesses, and Justice Reform (Scotland) Act 2025"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2002/11/schedule/2/paragraph/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:17:01.368750+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."
}