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					<dc:identifier>http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1978/29/section/95</dc:identifier><dc:title>National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978</dc:title><dc:description>An Act to consolidate certain enactments relating to the national health service in Scotland.</dc:description><dc:date>1980-10-01</dc:date><dc:type>text</dc:type><dc:format>text/xml</dc:format><dc:language>en</dc:language><dc:publisher>Statute Law Database</dc:publisher><dc:modified>2026-08-04</dc:modified><dc:contributor>Expert Participation</dc:contributor><dct:valid>2026-07-22</dct:valid>
					
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(Scotland) Act 1978</ukm:AffectedTitle><ukm:AffectedProvisions><ukm:Section xmlns:err="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/namespaces/error" Ref="section-70A-2" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1978/29/section/70A/2" err:Ref="Section missing in legislation" Missing="true">s. 70A(2)</ukm:Section></ukm:AffectedProvisions><ukm:AffectingTitle>Smoking, Health and Social Care (Scotland) Act 2005</ukm:AffectingTitle><ukm:AffectingProvisions><ukm:Section Ref="section-14-3" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2005/13/section/14/3">s. 14(3)</ukm:Section></ukm:AffectingProvisions><ukm:CommencementAuthority><ukm:Section Ref="section-43-3" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2005/13/section/43/3">s. 43(3)</ukm:Section></ukm:CommencementAuthority><ukm:InForceDates><ukm:InForce Applied="false" Prospective="true" Qualification=""/></ukm:InForceDates></ukm:UnappliedEffect><ukm:UnappliedEffect Row="651" AffectingEffectsExtent="S" AffectedExtent="S" 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URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2005/13/schedule/2">sch. 2 </ukm:Section><ukm:Section Ref="schedule-2-paragraph-2-18-b" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2005/13/schedule/2/paragraph/2/18/b">para. 2(18)(b)</ukm:Section></ukm:AffectingProvisions><ukm:CommencementAuthority><ukm:Section Ref="section-43-3" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2005/13/section/43/3">s. 43(3)</ukm:Section></ukm:CommencementAuthority><ukm:InForceDates><ukm:InForce Applied="false" Prospective="true" Qualification=""/></ukm:InForceDates></ukm:UnappliedEffect><ukm:UnappliedEffect AffectingURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2005/13" Type="inserted" AffectedClass="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" AffectingEffectsExtent="S" Row="827" AffectedProvisions="Sch. 11 para. 2(1A)" AffectingProvisions="s. 14(6)(a)" RequiresApplied="true" AffectedYear="1978" AffectedExtent="S" AffectingClass="ScottishAct" EffectId="key-082ff7a365f8c9fe97364ff8cca121cd" Modified="2024-04-30T09:44:41Z" 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1978</ukm:AffectedTitle><ukm:AffectedProvisions><ukm:Section Ref="section-16A-5" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1978/29/section/16A/5" FoundRef="section-16A">s. 16A(5)</ukm:Section></ukm:AffectedProvisions><ukm:AffectingTitle>Community Care and Health (Scotland) Act 2002</ukm:AffectingTitle><ukm:AffectingProvisions><ukm:Section Ref="schedule-2" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2002/5/schedule/2">Sch. 2 </ukm:Section><ukm:Section Ref="schedule-2-paragraph-2-2" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2002/5/schedule/2/paragraph/2/2">para. 2(2)</ukm:Section></ukm:AffectingProvisions><ukm:CommencementAuthority><ukm:Section Ref="section-27-2" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2002/5/section/27/2">s. 27(2)</ukm:Section></ukm:CommencementAuthority><ukm:InForceDates><ukm:InForce Applied="false" Prospective="true" Qualification=""/></ukm:InForceDates></ukm:UnappliedEffect><ukm:UnappliedEffect AffectedClass="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Type="inserted" Comments="Editor: need to add amendment by 2005 asp 13, s. 12(2)(a) if this effect ever comes into force: &#34;(2) In the 1978 Act— (a) in section 70A(2) (personal dental services as respects which regulations under section 70A(1) may provide for the making and recovery of charges), for the words “other than those” substitute “except— (a) oral health assessments and dental examinations carried out on or after 1st April 2006; and (b) those services”;" AffectedProvisions="s. 70A" RequiresApplied="true" AffectingNumber="46" AffectedExtent="S" Modified="2021-07-30T16:24:23Z" AppendedCommentary="(as amended (7.3.2006 for specified purposes and 1.4.2006 otherwise) by 2005 asp 13, ss. 12(2)(a), 43(3); S.S.I. 2005/492, art. 3(e), Sch. 3; S.S.I. 2006/121, art. 3(a), Sch. 1)" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/effect/key-971cee9a149a6c6d18bbc9884ce6cb71" AffectingEffectsExtent="S+A+M+E+A+S+A+F+F+E+C+T+E+D" AffectedURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1978/29" AffectingURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1997/46" AffectedNumber="29" AffectingProvisions="s. 26(2)" Row="100" AffectingClass="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" AffectingYear="1997" EffectId="key-971cee9a149a6c6d18bbc9884ce6cb71" AffectedYear="1978"><ukm:AffectedTitle>National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978</ukm:AffectedTitle><ukm:AffectedProvisions><ukm:Section xmlns:err="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/namespaces/error" Ref="section-70A" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1978/29/section/70A" err:Ref="Section missing in legislation" Missing="true">s. 70A</ukm:Section></ukm:AffectedProvisions><ukm:AffectingTitle>National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997</ukm:AffectingTitle><ukm:AffectingProvisions><ukm:Section Ref="section-26-2" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1997/46/section/26/2">s. 26(2)</ukm:Section></ukm:AffectingProvisions><ukm:CommencementAuthority><ukm:Section Ref="section-41-3" 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Sch. 4 para. 5(4)-(9) omitted (1.4.2004) by virtue of S.S.I. 2004/167, Sch. para. 7" AffectedYear="1978" AffectingProvisions="sch. 4 para. 5(4)"><ukm:AffectedTitle>National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978</ukm:AffectedTitle><ukm:AffectedProvisions><ukm:Section Ref="section-19A-2-b" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1978/29/section/19A/2/b" FoundRef="section-19A">s. 19A(2)(b)</ukm:Section></ukm:AffectedProvisions><ukm:AffectingTitle>Public Appointments and Public Bodies etc. (Scotland) Act 2003</ukm:AffectingTitle><ukm:AffectingProvisions><ukm:Section Ref="schedule-4" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2003/4/schedule/4">sch. 4 </ukm:Section><ukm:Section Ref="schedule-4-paragraph-5-4" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2003/4/schedule/4/paragraph/5/4">para. 5(4)</ukm:Section></ukm:AffectingProvisions><ukm:CommencementAuthority><ukm:Section Ref="section-21-2" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2003/4/section/21/2">s. 21(2)</ukm:Section></ukm:CommencementAuthority><ukm:InForceDates><ukm:InForce Prospective="true" Qualification=""/></ukm:InForceDates></ukm:UnappliedEffect><ukm:UnappliedEffect URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/effect/key-1d8a5be4e5c3bbc82f45f09dd5c89234" AffectingProvisions="sch. 4 para. 5(5)(a)" Modified="2024-04-30T09:44:41Z" Comments="Repealed without ever being in force according to IIIF" AffectedExtent="S" AffectingYear="2003" AffectingClass="ScottishAct" AffectedProvisions="s. 19B(2)(a)" Notes="This amendment not applied to legislation.gov.uk. 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          <CommentaryRef Ref="c14171981"/>Part VI</Number><Title> The Health Service Commissioner for Scotland</Title><P1group RestrictExtent="S" Match="false"><Title><CommentaryRef Ref="c14172221"/>Application of certain provisions of the Parliamentary Commissioner Act 1967.</Title><P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1978/29/section/95" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1978/29/section/95" id="section-95"><Pnumber>95</Pnumber><P1para><Text>The following provisions of the <CommentaryRef Ref="c14172231"/>Parliamentary Commissioner Act 1967 shall, with any necessary modifications, apply to the Commissioner, to his officers and to a body subject to investigation as they apply to the Commissioner under that Act, to his officers and to a department or authority concerned:—</Text><UnorderedList Decoration="none"><ListItem><Para><Text>section 7 (procedure in respect of investigations);</Text></Para></ListItem><ListItem><Para><Text>section 8 (evidence);</Text></Para></ListItem><ListItem><Para><Text>section 9 (obstruction and contempt);</Text></Para></ListItem><ListItem><Para><Text>section 11 (secrecy of information), except subsection (4);</Text></Para></ListItem></UnorderedList><Text>and in sections 7(1) and 8(1) of the said Act of 1967 as applied by this section the words “<Term id="term-the-principal-officer-of">the principal officer of</Term>” and “<Term id="term-minister">Minister</Term>” shall be omitted.</Text></P1para></P1></P1group></Part></Body></Primary><Commentaries><Commentary id="c14171981" Type="F"><Para><Text><CitationSubRef id="c04818" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1978/29/part/VI" SectionRef="part-VI">Pt. VI</CitationSubRef> (ss. 90-97) repealed (5.2.1994) by <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1993/46" id="c04819" Year="1993" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="46">1993 c. 46</Citation>, <CitationSubRef id="c04820" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1993/46/section/20" CitationRef="c04819" SectionRef="section-20">ss. 20</CitationSubRef>, <CitationSubRef id="c04821" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1993/46/section/22/4" CitationRef="c04819" SectionRef="section-22-4">22(4)</CitationSubRef>, <CitationSubRef id="c04822" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1993/46/schedule/3" Operative="true" CitationRef="c04819" SectionRef="schedule-3">Sch. 3</CitationSubRef> (with <CitationSubRef id="c04823" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1993/46/section/3/4" CitationRef="c04819" SectionRef="section-3-4">s. 3(4)</CitationSubRef>).</Text></Para></Commentary><Commentary id="c14172221" Type="C"><Para><Text><CitationSubRef id="c10626" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1978/29/part/VI" SectionRef="part-VI">Pt. VI</CitationSubRef> (ss. 90–97) applied (1.4.1991) by <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1990/2639" id="c10627" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="1990" Number="2639">S.I. 1990/2639</Citation>, <CitationSubRef id="c10628" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1990/2639/article/5/1/2" CitationRef="c10627" SectionRef="article-5-1-2">art. 5(1)(2)</CitationSubRef>, <CitationSubRef id="c10629" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1990/2639/schedule/part/I" Operative="true" CitationRef="c10627" SectionRef="schedule-part-I">Sch. Pt. I</CitationSubRef></Text></Para></Commentary><Commentary id="c14172231" Type="M"><Para><Text><Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1967/13" id="c10630" Year="1967" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="13">1967 c. 13</Citation>. </Text></Para></Commentary></Commentaries></Legislation>