The Medical Act 1983 (Approved Medical Practices and Conditions of Residence) and National Health Service (General Medical Services) (Amendment) Regulations 1998

Statutory Instruments

1998 No. 1664

MEDICAL PROFESSION

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Medical Act 1983 (Approved Medical Practices and Conditions of Residence) and National Health Service (General Medical Services) (Amendment) Regulations 1998

Made

9th July 1998

Laid before Parliament

10th July 1998

Coming into force

31st July 1998

The Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of powers conferred on him by section 11(3)(b) and (4) of the Medical Act 1983(1) and by section 29 and 126(4) of the National Health Service Act 1977(2) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:–

(1)

1983 c. 54. Section 11 was amended by S.I. 1996/1591, Schedule 2, paragraph 3 and by the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997 (c. 46), section 35 and Schedule 2, paragraph 61(2).

(2)

1977 c. 49; see section 128(1) as amended by the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19) (“the 1990 Act”), section 26(2)(g) and (i), for the definitions of “prescribed” and “regulations”. Section 29 was extended by the Health and Medicines Act 1988 (c. 49), section 17; and amended by the Health Services Act 1980 (c. 53), sections 1 and 7 and Schedule 1, paragraph 42(b); by the Health and Social Services and Social Security Adjudications Act 1983 (c. 41), Schedule 6, paragraph 2; by the Medical Act 1983 (c. 54), section 56(1) and Schedule 5, paragraph 16(a); by S.I. 1985/39, article 7(3); by the Health Authorities Act 1995 (c. 17), Schedule 1, paragraph 18; and by the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997 (c. 46), Schedule 2, paragraph 8. Section 126(4) was amended by the 1990 Act, section 65(2).