1. These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (Primary Medical Services Performers Lists) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2004 and shall come into force on 7th June 2004.
2.—(1) The National Health Service (Primary Medical Services Performers Lists) (Scotland) Regulations 2004(1) shall be amended as provided in this regulation.
(2) In regulation 7(5) (decisions and grounds for refusal and deferral) for “paragraph (3)” substitute “paragraph (4)”.
(3) In regulation 10 (removal from the primary medical services performers list of medical practitioners not performing primary medical services)–
(a)in paragraphs (1) and (2)(a) for “service” substitute “services”; and
(b)in paragraph (7) for “medical practitioner” substitute “performer”.
(4) In regulation 11 (re-inclusion in a primary medical services performers list)–
(a)for “performer's” substitute “performers”; and
(b)for “practitioner” substitute “person”.
(5) In sub-paragraph (c) of paragraph (3) and sub-paragraph (j) of paragraph (8) of regulation 14 (disclosure of information) omit “that” in the second place where it occurs in each of those sub-paragraphs.
(6) In Schedule 1–
(a)in paragraph 2(b) before “register of medical practitioners” insert “the”;
(b)in paragraph 3–
(i)in sub-paragraph (b)(iii) omit “in” in the first place where it occurs; and
(ii)in sub-paragraph (d)(ii) before “78” insert “paragraph”.
MALCOLM CHISHOLM
A member of the Scottish Executive
St. Andrew’s House, Edinburgh
13th May 2004