The National Health Service (Choice of Medical Practitioner) (Scotland) Regulations 1998

Statutory Instruments

1998 No. 659 (S.29)

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, SCOTLAND

The National Health Service (Choice of Medical Practitioner) (Scotland) Regulations 1998

Made

9th March 1998

Laid before Parliament

11th March 1998

Coming into force

1st April 1998

The Secretary of State, in exercise of powers conferred on him by sections 17F(1), (2) and (5), 19 and 105(7) of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978(1) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

(1)

1978 c. 29. Section 17F was inserted by section 23(2) of the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997 (c. 46); section 19 was amended by the Health Services Act 1980 (c. 53) (“the 1980 Act”), section 7, by the Health and Social Services and Social Security Adjudication Act 1983 (c. 41) (“the 1983 Act”), Schedule 7, paragraph 2, by the Medical Act 1983 (c. 54), Schedule 5, paragraph 17(a) and by the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19), section 37 and is to be read with the Health and Medicines Act 1988 (c. 49), section 17; section 105(7) was amended by the 1980 Act, Schedule 6, paragraph 5 and Schedule 7 and by the 1983 Act, Schedule 9, paragraph 24.