1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (Charges for Drugs and Appliances) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1991 and shall come into force on 1st April 1991.
(2) In these Regulations, “the principal Regulations” means the National Health Service (Charges for Drugs and Appliances) (Scotland) Regulations 1989(1).
2.—(1) In the definition of “prescription form” in regulation 2(1) and in regulations 5(1) and (3) and 6(1) and (2) of the principal Regulations after the words “a Board” there shall be inserted the words “or an NHS trust”(2).
(2) In regulation 6(4) and (5) of those Regulations after the words “the Board” there shall be inserted the words “or, as the case may be, the NHS trust”.
(3) In regulation 7(2)(c)—
(a)after the words “to a Board” there shall be inserted the words “to a Board or, as the case may be, to an NHS trust”; and
(b)after the words “that Board” there shall be inserted the words “or, as the case may be, that NHS trust”.
(4) In regulation 7(4) and (5) of those Regulations for the words “or a Board” there shall be substituted the words “, a Board or, as the case may be, an NHS trust”.
3.—(1) ln regulation 3(1)(b) of the principal Regulations (“Supply of drugs and appliances by chemists”), for the figure “£3.05”, there shall be substituted the figure “£3.40”.
(2) In regulation 8(5) of the principal Regulations (“Prepayment certificates”)—
(a)for the figure “£15.80” there shall be substituted the figure “£17.60”; and
(b)for the figure “£43.50” there shall be substituted the figure “£48.50”.
(3) For Schedules 1, 2 and 3 to the principal Regulations there shall be substituted those Schedules as set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.
4. The principal Regulations, as amended by these Regulations, shall apply only in relation to supplies of drugs and appliances made after 31st March 1991 except that—
(a)regulation 6 (“Fabric supports and wigs”) of the principal Regulations, as so amended, shall apply only where the examination or first examination leading to the supply of the specified appliance takes place after that date; and
(b)regulation 8 (“prepayment certificates”) of the principal Regulations, as so amended, shall apply only where the application referred to in paragraph (1) of that regulation is received after that date.
Michael B. Forsyth
Minister of State, Scottish Office
St. Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
8th March 1991