SCHEDULE 9CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS TO PRIMARY LEGISLATION

National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997 (c. 46)6

In the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997—

a

in section 2 (provision of personal medical services)—

i

in subsection (2), for paragraph (b) there shall be substituted—

b

an eligible medical practitioner;

ii

for subsection (4), there shall be substituted—

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Regulations shall make provision as to the meaning of “eligible medical practitioner” for the purposes of this section.

b

section 11 (medical practitioners to be suitably experienced) shall be omitted;

c

in section 22 (supplementary regulations)—

i

in subsection (1), the subsection (6) of the section 28E (personal medical or dental services: regulations) to be inserted into the 1977 Act shall be omitted, and

ii

in subsection (2)80, the subsection (6) of the section 17E to be inserted into the 1978 Act shall be omitted; and

d

in section 33 (medical lists and vacancies: Scotland), subsection (3) shall be omitted.