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Statutory Instruments
NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, SCOTLAND
Made
4th December 1998
Laid before Parliament
10th December 1998
Coming into force
31st December 1998
The Secretary of State, in exercise of powers conferred on him by sections 17G, 25(2)(c), 34, 105(7) and 108(1) of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978(1) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:
1. These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (Choice of Dental Practitioner) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1998 and shall come into force on December 1998.
2.—(1) The National Health Service (Choice of Dental Practitioner) (Scotland) Regulations 1998(2) shall be amended in accordance with this Regulation.
(2) In regulation 3(c)(i) (exercise of choice of dentists in certain cases) after the words “Children (Scotland) Act 1995” there are inserted the words “by a person duly authorised by that authority”.
Sam Galbraith
Minister for Health, Scottish Office
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
4th December 1998
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the National Health Service (Choice of Dental Practitioner) (Scotland) Regulations 1998 (“the principal Regulations”), which make provisions relating to the right of any person to choose a dentist from whom he is to receive primary dental service.
Regulation 2 corrects an omission in the principal regulations to make provision for an application for primary dental services on behalf of a person under the age of 18 who is looked after by a local authority within the meaning of section 17(6) of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995 to be made by a person duly authorised by that authority.
1978 c. 29; section 17G was inserted by the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997 (c. 46), section 24(2), section 25(2) was amended by the Health and Medicines Act 1988 (c. 49) (“the 1998 Act”), Schedule 2, paragraph 11 and by the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19), section 40(2) and Schedule 9, paragraph 19(6) and was extended by the 1988 Act, section 17; section 105(7), which was amended by the Health Services Act 1980 (c. 53), Schedule 6, paragraph 5 and Schedule 7 and by the Health and Social Services and Social Security Adjudications Act 1983 (c. 41), Schedule 9, paragraph 24, contains provisions relevant to the making of Regulations; section 108(1) confirms definitions of “prescribed” and “regulations” relevant to the exercise of the statutory powers under which these Regulations are made.