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Community Care and Health (Scotland) Act 2002

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National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 (c. 29)

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2(1)The 1978 Act is amended as follows.

(2)In section 16A (payments by Health Boards towards expenditure of others on community services), after subsection (4) there is added—

(5)This section is without prejudice to section 13 of the Community Care and Health (Scotland) Act 2002 (asp 5) (payments by NHS bodies towards certain local authority expenditure)..

(3)In section 20 (applications to provide general medical services)—

(a)in subsection (1), for the words “a list kept by that Board of the names of medical practitioners undertaking to provide general medical services for persons in the Board’s area” there is substituted “the Board’s medical list”; and

(b)in subsection (1A), for the words “the list kept by any Health Board” there is substituted “a Health Board’s medical list”.

(4)In section 29 (the NHS Tribunal)—

(a)in subsection (6), at the end there is added “, are approved to assist in providing or are approved to perform”; and

(b)in subsection (8)—

(i)at the end of paragraph (a), there is added “or approved to assist in the provision of such services”; and

(ii)after that paragraph, there is inserted—

(aa)a list of medical practitioners approved to perform personal medical services—

(i)in accordance with section 17C arrangements; or

(ii)in connection with the provision of such services under a pilot scheme;; and

(iii)for the words “this Part” there is substituted “or by virtue of this Part or Part I of this Act”.

(5)In section 29A (the NHS Tribunal: supplementary)—

(a)in subsection (3)—

(i)in paragraph (a), after the word “providing” there is inserted “, or as the case may be performing,”; and

(ii)in paragraph (b), after the word “provision” there is inserted “, or performance,”; and

(b)after subsection (3) there is inserted—

(3A)Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (3), that subsection applies in relation to the provision of general medical services in the area of a Health Board even where the practitioner’s name is included only in a supplementary list of the Board..

(6)In section 29B (powers of NHS Tribunal)—

(a)in subsection (2)(a), after the word “inclusion” there is inserted

(i)in the case of a medical practitioner other than one mentioned in paragraph (b) of subsection (8) of section 29, in any of the Health Board’s lists within paragraphs (a) and (aa) of that subsection (whether or not including the list to which the case relates); and

(ii)in any other case,;

(b)in subsection (2)(b), for the words from “in” to the end there is substituted

(i)in the case of a medical practitioner other than one so mentioned, in all lists within those paragraphs (a) and (aa); and

(ii)in any other case, in all lists within the same paragraph of that subsection as the list to which the case relates.; and

(c)in subsection (3), after the word “provision” there is inserted “, or as the case may be performance,”.

(7)In section 30(4) (construction of references to Health Board)—

(a)after the word “providing” there is inserted “, or as the case may be performing,”;

(b)for the words “any corresponding authority” there is substituted “a reference to any authority which”; and

(c)at the end there is added “would be entitled to request a review corresponding to that mentioned in the subsection”.

(8)In section 31 (disqualification provisions in England and Wales or Northern Ireland)—

(a)in subsection (1)(a)—

(i)after the word “under”, where it first occurs, there is inserted “or by virtue of”;

(ii)for the words “those provisions” there is substituted “or by virtue of—” and the following sub-paragraphs—

(i)those provisions so in force; or

(ii)provisions so in force corresponding to the provisions of Part I of this Act,; and

(iii)after the word “provide” there is inserted “, approved to assist in providing or approved to perform”; and

(b)in subsection (2)—

(i)after the word “provision”, in each of the two places where it occurs, there is inserted “, assistance in provision or performance”; and

(ii)at the end there is added “, section 17C arrangements or a pilot scheme”.

(9)In section 32A (applications for interim suspension)—

(a)in subsection (2A)(a), after the word “Part” there is inserted “, section 17C arrangements or a pilot scheme”;

(b)in subsection (3)(c), after the word “provision” there is inserted “or performance”; and

(c)in subsection (6)(a), after the word “provide” there is inserted “, approved to assist in providing or approved to perform”.

(10)In section 32B—

(a)in subsection (2)—

(i)in paragraph (a), for the words “direction under section 29(3)(b)” there is substituted “national disqualification”; and

(ii)in paragraph (b), for the words “that direction” there is substituted “the disqualification”; and

(b)in subsection (3), for the words “32(A)(3)” there is substituted “32A(3)”.

(11)In section 32D (suspension provisions in England and Wales or in Northern Ireland)—

(a)in subsection (1)—

(i)after the words “prepared under” there is inserted “or by virtue of”; and

(ii)after the word “Part” there is inserted “or Part I”;

(b)in subsection (2)(a), for the words “this Part” there is substituted “or by virtue of this Part or Part I”; and

(c)in each of those subsections, after the word “provide” there is inserted “, approved to assist in providing or approved to perform”.

(12)In section 108(1) (interpretation), at the appropriate places there are inserted—

“medical list” means the list of medical practitioners undertaking to provide general medical services kept by a Health Board under regulations made under section 19(2)(a);;

“pilot scheme” has the meaning given by section 1 of the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997 (c. 46);;

“services list” has the meaning indicated in section 17EA(2);;

“supplementary list” has the meaning indicated in section 24B(2);.

(13)In paragraph 17 of Schedule 7A, at the beginning there is inserted “Subject to the provisions of any regulations made under section 15(4)(c) of the Community Care and Health (Scotland) Act 2002 (asp 5),”.

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