The Health Services (Pilot Schemes: Miscellaneous Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999

Amendment of the Health and Social Services Councils Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1991

14.  The Health and Social Services Councils Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1991(1) shall be amended as follows—

(a) in regulation 1(2) (interpretation), at the appropriate place in alphabetical order, insert—

• ““pilot scheme” has the meaning assigned to it in Article 3(1) of the Health Services (Primary Care) (Northern Ireland) Order 1997;”;

““pilot scheme agreement” means an agreement which constitutes, or is one of the agreements which together constitute, a pilot scheme;”;

““pilot scheme provider” means a person, other than a Health and Social Services Board, who is a party to a pilot scheme agreement under the Health Services (Primary Care) (Northern Ireland) Order 1997;”;

““pilot scheme performer” means a person, who may also be a pilot scheme provider, who performs personal medical services or personal dental services under a pilot scheme;”; and

(b) in regulation 7(1) (disqualification for membership), after sub-paragraph (e), insert—

“(ee) he is a pilot scheme provider or pilot scheme performer in a pilot scheme under the Health Services (Primary Care) (Northern Ireland) Order 1997;”.

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S.R. 1998 No. 412