These Regulations make amendments to the National Health Service (Discipline Committees) (Scotland) Regulations 2006 (S.S.I. 2006/330) (the “2006 Regulations”).

Regulation 2 amends paragraph 6(2) of Schedule 1 of the 2006 Regulations to provide that the limitation on the term of office of any member or deputy member of any discipline committee is increased from 1 year to 3.

Regulation 2 also amends paragraph 1(1)(a) of Schedule 2 of the 2006 Regulations to provide that the period of time within which the health board must notify a practitioner of their referral to a discipline committee has been increased from 2 working days to 5 working days.

Regulation 3 provides that the amendment to paragraph 1(1)(a) of Schedule 2 shall not affect the notification period that relates to a referral where the referral took place before the date of the commencement of these Regulations.