The National Health Service (General Medical Services) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 3) Regulations 2003

Scottish Statutory Instruments

2003 No. 443

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE

The National Health Service (General Medical Services) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 3) Regulations 2003

Made

17th September 2003

Laid before the Scottish Parliament

19th September 2003

Coming into force

10th October 2003

The Scottish Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 2(5), 19, 28(1), 105(7) and 108(1) of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978(1), and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations:

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1978 c. 29; section 2(5) was amended by the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19) (“the 1990 Act”), Schedule 9, paragraph 19; section 19 was amended by the Health Services Act 1980 (c. 53) (“the 1980 Act”), section 7, by the Health and Social Services and Social Security Adjudications Act 1983 (c. 41) (“the 1983 Act”), Schedule 7, paragraph 2, by the Medical Act 1983 (c. 54), Schedule 5, paragraph 17(a), by the 1990 Act, section 37, by the Medical (Professional Performance) Act 1995 (c. 51), Schedule, paragraph 29(a), and by the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997 (c. 46), Schedule 2, Part I, paragraph 39 and Schedule 3, Part I, and is to be read with the Health and Medicines Act 1988 (c. 49), section 17; section 28(1) was amended by the National Health Service (Amendment) Act 1986 (c. 66), section 3(4); section 105(7) which contains provisions relating to the making of Regulations, was amended by the 1980 Act, Schedule 6, paragraph 5 and Schedule 7, by the 1983 Act, Schedule 9, Part I, paragraph 24 and by the Health Act 1999 (c. 8), Schedule 4, paragraph 60; section 108(1) contains a definition of “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).