The National Health Service (Clinical Negligence and Other Risks Indemnity Scheme) (Scotland) Regulations 2000

Scottish Statutory Instruments

2000 No. 54

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE

The National Health Service (Clinical Negligence and Other Risks Indemnity Scheme) (Scotland) Regulations 2000

Made

9th March 2000

Laid before the Scottish Parliament

10th March 2000

Coming into force

1st April 2000

The Scottish Ministers, in exercise of powers conferred upon them by sections 2(5), 85B, 105(7) and 108(1) of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978(1), hereby make the following Regulations:

(1)

1978 c. 29; section 85B was inserted by the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19), section 41 and was amended by the Health Act 1999 (c. 8), (“the 1999 Act”) Schedule 4, paragraph 56; section 105(7), which contains provisions relevant to the making of Regulations, was amended by the Health Service 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 1999 Act, 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).