The Health and Personal Social Services (Fund-holding Practices) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999

Amendment of regulation 1 of the principal Regulations

2.—(1) Regulation 1 of the principal Regulations (citation, commencement and interpretation) is amended as follows.

(2) In paragraph (2), in the appropriate position in alphabetic order, insert—

““the 1997 Order” means the Health Services (Primary Care) (Northern Ireland) Order 1997(1);”;

  • ““personal medical services” has the meaning given to it in Article 3(7) of the 1997 Order;”;

  • ““pilot scheme” has the meaning given to it in Article 3 of the 1997 Order;”; and

““pilot scheme provider” means a person, other than a Health and Social Services Board, who is a party to a pilot scheme.”.

(3) In paragraph (4), after “medical list” insert “in which he is included or (in the case of a medical practitioner who is not included in a medical list but who performs personal medical services under a pilot scheme) to the address of the pilot scheme provider given in the pilot scheme”.