The National Health Service (England) (Pilot Schemes: Miscellaneous Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Amendment Regulations 2002

Statutory Instruments

2002 No. 543

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND

The National Health Service (England) (Pilot Schemes: Miscellaneous Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Amendment Regulations 2002

Made

6th March 2002

Laid before Parliament

11th March 2002

Coming into force

1st April 2002

The Secretary of State, in exercise of his powers conferred by section 11(2)(c) of the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997(1), and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:—

Citation, commencement, extent and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (England) (Pilot Schemes: Miscellaneous Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Amendment Regulations 2002 and shall come into force on 1st April 2002.

(2) These Regulations extend to England only.

(3) In these Regulations the “principal Regulations” means the National Health Service (Pilot Schemes: Miscellaneous Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Regulations 1998(2).

Amendment of principal Regulations

2.  In regulation 5 of the principal Regulations (persons who may perform personal medical services), in paragraph (2)—

(a) omit “and” at the end of sub-paragraph (a);

(b) after sub-paragraph (b) add—

“(c) a person who has an acquired right to practise as a general medical practitioner under regulation 5(1)(d) of the Vocational Training for General Medical Practice (European Requirements) Regulations 1994(3).”.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health

John Hutton

Minister of State,

Department of Health

6th March 2002

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the National Health Service (Pilot Schemes: Miscellaneous Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Regulations 1998.

Regulation 2 adds a further category to those persons who may perform personal medical services even though they are not suitably experienced within the meaning of sections 31(2) and 32 of the National Health Service Act 1977.

(1)

1997 c. 46. As regards Wales, the functions of the Secretary of State under section 11(2) are transferred to the National Assembly for Wales under article 2 of, and Schedule 1 to, the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999, S.I. 1999/672.

(2)

S.I. 1998/646.

(3)

S.I. 1994/3130.