The National Health Service (Penalty Charge) (Scotland) Regulations 1999

Scottish Statutory Instruments

1999 No. 121

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE

The National Health Service (Penalty Charge) (Scotland) Regulations 1999

Made

14th October 1999

Laid before the Scottish Parliament

21st October 1999

Coming into force

16th November 1999

The Scottish Ministers, in exercise of powers conferred on them bysections 99ZB(1), (2), (4) and (5), 105(7) and 108(1) of the NationalHealth Service (Scotland) Act 1978(1), and of all other powersenabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations:

(1)

1978 c. 29; section 99ZB was inserted by the Health Act1999 (c. 8) (“the 1999 Act”), section 59; section 105(7) which containsprovisions relevant to the making of Regulations, was amended by the HealthServices Act 1980 (c. 53), Schedule 6, paragraph 5 and Schedule 7, by theHealth and Social Services and Social Security Adjudications Act 1983(c.41), Schedule 9, paragraph 24 and by the 1999 Act, Schedule 4, paragraph60; section 108(1) contains definitions of “prescribed” and“regulations” relevant to the exercise of the statutory powers underwhich these Regulations are made. The functions of the Secretary of Statewere transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of theScotland Act 1998 (c. 46).