Amendment of the Health and Personal Social Services (Disciplinary Procedures) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996
3. The Health and Personal Social Services (Disciplinary Procedures) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996(1) shall be amended as follows–
(a)in regulation 2(1) (interpretation), the following definitions shall be inserted at the appropriate point in alphabetical order–
““the 1997 Order” means the Health Services (Primary Care) (Northern Ireland) Order 1997;”
““personal medical services” has the meaning given in Article 3(7) of the 1997 Order;”
““pilot scheme” has the meaning given in Article 3(1) of the 1997 Order;”
““pilot scheme practitioner” has the meaning given in Article 16(3) of the 1997 Order;”; and
(b)regulation 4 (provisions relating to the start of disciplinary proceedings) shall be amended as follows–
(i)in paragraph (5), after “doctor was included” there shall be inserted–
“; or
(c)with which the agreement constituting the pilot scheme was made, where the matter relates to the act or omission of a doctor when temporarily performing personal medical services in connection with a pilot scheme in place of a pilot scheme practitioner who is normally responsible for the performance of those services”; and
(ii)in paragraph 6(a), after “relevant time” there shall be inserted–
“or who at the relevant time was a pilot scheme practitioner”.