The National Health Service (Recognition of Health Service Bodies) (Scotland) Order 2008

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order, which comes into force on 13th October 2008, specifies the Dentists Vocational Training Appeal Body (“the Appeal Body”) for the purposes of section 88 of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 (“the Act”) (payment of allowances and remuneration to members of certain bodies connected with the health services).

The Dentists Vocational Training Appeal Body is constituted by regulation 4 of the National Health Service (Vocational Training for General Dental Practice) (Scotland) Regulations 2004.

Article 2(2) specifies the Appeal Body, in terms of section 88(1)(e) the Act, which empowers the Scottish Ministers to pay travelling and other allowances to any body specified in an Order made by the Scottish Ministers as being a body recognised by them to have been formed for the purpose of performing a function connected with the provision of services under the Act.

Article 2(3) specifies the Appeal Body for the purposes of section 88(2)(d) of the Act, which empowers the Scottish Ministers to pay remuneration to any body constituted under or by virtue of Part II of the Act specified in an order made by the Scottish Ministers. The Appeal Body is constituted by regulations made by virtue of Part II of the Act (section 25(2)).