The National Health Service (Injury Benefits) Amendment Regulations 2000

Amendment of regulation 4A

6.  In regulation 4A (recovery of costs)(1) for paragraph (6) there shall be substituted the following paragraphs:–

“(6) This regulation and regulation 4(5) shall apply–

(a) to a practitioner, as if he were an officer of the Health Authority in whose area he is providing services;

(b) to–

(i) a registered dentist who is engaged, under a contract for services, by a person providing piloted services to carry out personal dental services in accordance with a pilot scheme, or

(ii) a dental pilot scheme employee who is employed as such otherwise than by a National Health Service Trust or a Primary Care Trust,

as if he were an officer of the Health Authority with which the person providing the piloted services has agreed to provide them; and

(c) to–

(i) a person providing piloted services, or

(ii) a registered medical practitioner who is a medical pilot scheme employee,

as if he were an officer of the Health Authority or, as the case may be, the Primary Care Trust with which the person providing the piloted services has agreed to provide them.

(7) Where, in the case of a person referred to in paragraph (1)(k) of regulation 3, paragraph (2) of that regulation applies with respect to any employment of his (within the meaning of that regulation) as a member of a Primary Care Trust or of its Executive Committee, this regulation shall apply to that person as if he were an officer employed by that Primary Care Trust.”.

(1)

Regulation 4A was inserted by S.I. 1997/646 and amended by S.I. 1998/667 and 2217.