The General Medical Services and Section 17C Agreements (Transitional and other Ancillary Provisions) (Scotland) Order 2004

Transitory modification of the National Health Service (Vocational Training for General Medical Practice (Scotland) Regulations 1998

101.—(1) Until their revocation by virtue of article 31(5) of, and Part 2 of Schedule 10 to the 2003 Order, the National Health Service (Vocational Training for General Medical Practice) (Scotland) Regulations 1998(1) are to have effect as if they were amended in accordance with this article.

(2) In regulation 2 (interpretation)(2)–

(a) in the definition of “General Practice (GP) Registrar”–

(i) for “has the meaning assigned to it in regulations made under section 19 of the Act” substitute–

“means a medical practitioner who is being trained in general practice by a medical practitioner who has been approved for that purpose by the Joint Committee under regulation 7”; and

(ii) for the words from “personal medical services” to the end, substitute–

“primary medical services in connection with an agreement for primary medical services made under section 17C of the Act;”;

(b) in the definition of “medical list”, in both sub-paragraphs (a) and (b), insert after “list” “that was”;

(c) in paragraph (2)–

(i) in sub-paragraph (a) for “is (or if the context so requires was)” substitute “was”; and

(ii) omit the full out text at the end.

(3) Regulation 4 shall be omitted(3).

(4) In regulation 5 (exemptions), in paragraph (1) for sub-paragraph (d) substitute–

“(d) if his name was, on 31st December 1994, included in a medical list for the provision of general medical services limited to–

(i) child health surveillance services only;

(ii) contraceptive services only;

(iii) maternity medical services only.”

(1)

1998/5 as amended by S.I. 1998/669 and S.S.I. 2000/23. The Regulations are prospectively revoked by S.I. 2003/1250.

(2)

Regulation 2 was amended by S.I. 1998/669.

(3)

Regulation 4 was amended by S.S.I. 2000/23.