The National Health Service (Charges for Drugs and Appliances) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2008

This Scottish Statutory Instrument has been made to correct errors in S.S.I. 2008/27 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that instrument.

Scottish Statutory Instruments

2008 No. 105

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE

The National Health Service (Charges for Drugs and Appliances) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2008

Made

6th March 2008

Laid before the Scottish Parliament

7th March 2008

Coming into force

1st April 2008

The Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 27(1) and (2), 69(1) and (2), 75A, 105(7) and 108(1) of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978(1) and all other powers enabling them to do so.

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1978 c. 29; section 27(2) was substituted by the National Health Service (Amendment) Act 1986 (c. 66), section 3(3) and amended by the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19) (“the 1990 Act”), Schedule 9, Part I, paragraph 19(7); section 75A was inserted by the Social Security Act 1988 (c. 7), section 14(2), and amended by the Health and Medicines Act 1988 (c. 49), Schedule 2, paragraph 13, the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997 (c. 46), Schedule 2, Part I, paragraphs 32 and 50, and the 1990 Act, Schedule 9, paragraph 19(13), and by S.I. 1998/2385; section 105(7), which was amended by the Health Services Act 1980 (c. 53), Schedule 6, paragraph 5(1) and Schedule 7, the Health and Social Services and Social Security Adjudications Act 1983 (c. 41), Schedule 9, paragraph 24, and by the Health Act 1999 (c. 8) (“the 1999 Act”), Schedule 4, paragraph 60, contains provisions relevant to the making of these Regulations; section 108(1) contains definitions of “prescribed” and “regulations” relevant to the exercise of the statutory powers under which these Regulations are made. See section 66(1) of the 1999 Act in relation to any provision of that Act being taken to be a pre-commencement enactment within the meaning of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46) (“the 1998 Act”). The functions of the Secretary of State were transferred to the Scottish Ministers, by virtue of section 53 of the 1998 Act.