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The National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts, Primary Medical Services Section 17C Agreements and Primary Medical Services Performers Lists) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2010

S.S.I. 2010/93 · Made 4 March 2010 · Extends to Scotland

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National Health Service

Made 4th March 2010

Laid before the Scottish Parliament 5th March 2010

Coming into force in accordance with regulation 1(2) and (3)

The Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 17E, 17K, 17L(1), 17N, 17P, 105(7) and 108(1) of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978f1 and all other powers enabling them to do so.

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

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1978 c.29; section 17E was inserted by section 22 of the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997 (c.46) and was amended by Schedule 4, paragraph 47 and Schedule 5 of the Health Act 1999 (c.8), section 2 of the Primary Medical Services (Scotland) Act 2004 (asp 1) (“the 2004 Act”) and S.I. 2003/1250; sections 17K, 17L and 17N were inserted by section 4 the 2004 Act; section 17P was inserted by section 5(2) of the 2004 Act and extended by section 17 (as amended by S.S.I. 2004/167) of the Health and Medicines Act 1988 (c.49); section 105(7) was amended by the Health Services Act 1980 (c.52), Schedule 6, paragraph 5(1) and Schedule 7, the Health and Social Services and Social Security Adjudications Act 1983 (c.41), Schedule 9, Part I, paragraph 24 and the Health Act 1999 (c.8), Schedule 4, paragraph 60; section 108(1) contains definitions of “prescribed” and “regulations” relevant to the exercise of the statutory powers under which these Regulations are made. The functions of the Secretary of State were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c.46).

Contents

  1. 1Citation and commencement
  2. 2Amendment of the National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) (Scotland) Regulations 2004 Repealed
  3. 3Amendments to the National Health Service (Primary Medical Services Section 17C Agreements) (Scotland) Regulations 2004 Repealed
  4. 4Amendment of paragraph 3 of Schedule 1 to the National Health Service (Primary Medical Services Performers Lists) (Scotland) Regulations 2004
  5. Signature
  6. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencementI1

(1)

These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts, Primary Medical Services Section 17C Agreements and Primary Medical Services Performers Lists) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2010.

(2)

Except as specified in paragraph (3), these Regulations come into force on 1st April 2010.

(3)

Regulations 2(c) and (d) and 3 come into force on 6th April 2010.

2Amendment of the National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) (Scotland) Regulations 2004F1

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3Amendments to the National Health Service (Primary Medical Services Section 17C Agreements) (Scotland) Regulations 2004F1

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4Amendment of paragraph 3 of Schedule 1 to the National Health Service (Primary Medical Services Performers Lists) (Scotland) Regulations 2004I1

In paragraph 3(i) of Schedule 1 to the National Health Service (Primary Medical Services Performers Lists) (Scotland) Regulations 2004f1 (undertakings to be included in applications), for “regulation 5(1)(d) of the Vocational Training for General Medical Practice (European Requirements) Regulations 1994” substitute “article 6(6) of the Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Order of Council 2010”.

Signature

NICOLA STURGEON

A member of the Scottish Executive

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

4th March 2010

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) (Scotland) Regulations 2004 (“the GMS Regulations”), the National Health Service (Primary Medical Services Section 17C Agreements) (Scotland) Regulations 2004 (“the Section 17C Regulations”) and the National Health Service (Primary Medical Services Performers Lists) (Scotland) Regulations 2004 (“the Performers Lists Regulations”).

Regulation 2 makes amendments to the GMS Regulations in relation to those eligible to hold contracts in light of changes to the registration of general practitioners. It also makes changes to the obligations on contractors to issue medical certificates free of charge and inserts a new provision regarding provision of information to various representatives of the Department for Work and Pensions.

Regulations 3 makes changes to the obligations on providers to issue medical certificates free of charge and inserts a new provision regarding provision of information to various representatives of the Department for Work and Pensions.

Regulation 4 updates a reference to in the Performers Lists Regulations in relation to the undertakings which are required in an application for inclusion on a performers list.