24.—(1) A contractor who receives financial assistance must comply with the obligations set out in schedule 3 throughout the period that the contractor receives that assistance and a term to this effect must be included in the contract.
(2) In this regulation, “financial assistance” means financial assistance from a Health Board or the Scottish Ministers in the form of—
(a)a recurring payment to the contractor of—
(i)the contractor’s owner-occupier borrowing costs;
(ii)notional rent payments to the contractor as an owner-occupier; or
(iii)reimbursement of the contractor’s rent payments,
in accordance with directions under sections 2(5) and 17M(3) of the Act(1); or
(b)a loan secured over the practice premises.
Section 17M was inserted by section 4 of the Primary Medical Services (Scotland) Act 2004.