The National Health Service (General Medical Services Supplementary Lists) (Scotland) Regulations 2003

Payments

13.—(1) Where the Agency considers that–

(a)a payment made by it in accordance with regulation 35 of the 1995 Regulations was not due; and

(b)a medical practitioner whose name is included in a supplementary list has assisted in relation to any matter related to the claim made in respect of it,

the Board may draw the overpayment to the attention of that practitioner and invite that practitioner to make representations in relation to it or the assistance which that practitioner may have rendered.

(2) Where the Board decide that there has been an overpayment for which the practitioner is responsible, in whole or in part, the amount overpaid or such part shall be recoverable from the practitioner as a debt.