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SCHEDULE 1MEDICAL AND DENTAL PRACTITIONERS

PART IIPENSIONABLE EARNINGS

Meaning of “pensionable earnings”

5.—(1) In the case of a principal practitioner and a non GP provider who is not in receipt of a salary, wages or fees or any regular payments in respect of their employment as an officer “pensionable earnings” means practitioner income less—

(a)any sum on account of practice expenses; and

(b)in the case of a dental practitioner the pensionable earnings, to the extent allowed by the Scottish Ministers, of any assistant practitioner in the practitioner’s employment or in the case of an assistant practitioner who is not in pensionable employment under this Section of the scheme, the amount that would have been taken to be that practitioner’s pensionable earnings if the practitioner was in such pensionable employment.

(2) Subject to sub-paragraph (3), for the purposes of this paragraph, “practitioner income” means—

(a)income which accrues to the practitioner or the non GP provider which is derived from—

(i)a GMS contract;

(ii)a section 17C agreement;

(iii)an HBPMS contract;

(iv)payments from, or to, a practitioner who is a GMS practice, a section 17C agreement provider or an HBPMS contractor in respect of the performance of certification services, commissioned services or collaborative services;

(v)the practitioner’s or the non GP provider’s engagement by a Health Board to assist in the provision of primary medical services under section 2C(2) of the 1978 Act(1);

(vi)in the case of a practitioner, the provision of locum services;

(vii)payments made to a principal practitioner by an OOH provider or other employing authority providing OOH services in respect of the performance of primary medical services, commissioned services, collaborative services and certification services;

(viii)payments made to a principal practitioner by an employing authority in respect of general dental services, general ophthalmic services or pharmaceutical services provided by the practitioner; or

(ix)practice based work carried out in educating or training, or organising the education or training, of medical students or practitioners;

(b)any charges made to a patient in respect of the services mentioned in paragraph (a) above which the practitioner is authorised by or under any enactment to retain, other than charges authorised by regulations made under section 73(b) of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978(2) (charges for more expensive supplies of dental appliances),

(c)any sums paid to the practitioner out of a fund determined by reference to the number of beds in a hospital; and

(d)in the case of a practitioner, allowances and any other sums (but excluding payment made to cover expenses) paid in respect of Board and advisory work.

(3) If the practitioner is in concurrent employment as an officer, or with a local authority or university, or as a civil servant, or in any other employment that the Scottish Ministers may in any particular case allow, “practitioner income” does not include any amounts for which the practitioner is required to account to the employer as a term or condition of that employment.

(4) In sub-paragraph (2)(a), “locum services” has the same meaning as for the purposes of paragraph 8.

(1)

Section 2C was inserted by the Primary Medical Services (Scotland) Act 2004 (asp 1), section 1(2).

(2)

1978 c.29; section 73(b) was amended by the Health and Social Security Act 1984 (c.48), Schedule 8.