The National Health Service (Tribunal) (Scotland) Regulations 2004

Health schemes

3.  The schemes prescribed for the purposes of section 29(9) of the 1978 Act (definition of “health scheme”)(1) are–

(a) health services, including dental, medical and surgical treatment, provided by Her Majesty’s Forces;

(b) services provided by port local authorities and joint port local authorities constituted under section 172 (constitution of port local authorities) of the Public Health (Scotland) Act 1897(2);

(c) health services provided to a prisoner in accordance with section 3A (medical services in prisons) of the Prisons (Scotland) Act 1989(3); and

(d) publicly-funded health services provided by or on behalf of any organisation anywhere in the world.

(1)

Section 29(9) was substituted by the Health Act 1999 (c. 8), section 58.

(2)

1897 c. 38 (60 & 61 Vict.); section 172 was expanded by the Clean Air Act 1993 (c. 11), section 61(2).

(3)

1989 c. 45. Section 3A was inserted by the Crime and Punishment (Scotland) Act 1997 (c. 48), section 43 and amended by S.I. 1998/251, and the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46), Schedule 8, paragraph 27.