The National Health Service (General Dental Services) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 3) Regulations 2000

This Scottish Statutory Instrument has been made in consequence of a defect in S.S.I. 2000/352 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Scottish Statutory Instrument.

Scottish Statutory Instruments

2000 No. 394

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE

The National Health Service (General Dental Services) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 3) Regulations 2000

Made

8th November 2000

Laid before the Scottish Parliament

9th November2000

Coming into force

1st December 2000

The Scottish Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 2(5), 25(1) and (2), 28A, 105(7) and 108(1) of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978(1) and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (General Dental Services) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 3) Regulations 2000 and shall come into force on 1st December 2000.

(2) In these Regulations, “the principal Regulations” means the National Health Service (General Dental Services) (Scotland) Regulations 1996(2).

Amendment of regulation 23 of the principal Regulations

2.—(1) Regulation 23 of the principal Regulations (approval of payments) is amended as follows.

(2) In paragraph (4)(b) for “, VIII and XI” there is substituted “, VIII and IX”.

SUSAN C DEACON

A member of the Scottish Executive

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

8th November 2000

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the National Health Service (General Dental Services) (Scotland) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/177) (“the principal Regulations”), which provide for arrangements under which dentists provide general dental services as part of the National Health Service in Scotland.

These Regulations correct an error in regulation 23 of the principal Regulations (approval of payments), which was made by S.S.I. 2000/352.

(1)

1978 c. 29; section 25(2) was amended by the Health and Medicines Act 1988 (c. 49) (“the 1988 Act”), Schedule 2, paragraph 11 and by the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19), section 40(2) and Schedule 9, paragraph 19(6) and was extended by the 1988 Act, section 17; section 28A was substituted by the Health Act 1999 (c. 8), section 57(1); section 105(7) which contains provisions relevant to the making of regulations, was amended by the Health Services Act 1980 (c. 53), Schedule 6, paragraph 5 and Schedule 7, by the Health and Social Services and Social Security Adjudications Act 1983 (c. 41), Schedule 9, paragraph 24, and by the Health Act 1999 (c. 8), Schedule 4, paragraph 60; section 108(1) contains definitions of “prescribed” and “regulations” relevant to the exercise of the statutory powers under which these Regulations are made. The functions of the Secretary of State were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46).

(2)

S.I. 1996/177, relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1999/724 and S.S.I. 2000/352.