The National Health Service (Choice of Medical Practitioner) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2000

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)(a)–

(a) in the definition of “doctor’s list” after the words “Health Board” there is inserted “or primary care NHS trust”;

(b) after the definition of “pooled list” there is inserted–

““primary care NHS trust” means an NHS trust to which certain functions referred to in section 12AA of the 1978 Act are delegated by the Health Board;”(1).

(1)

Section 12AA was inserted into the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 (c. 29) by the Health Act 1999 (c. 8) section 47.