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2.—(1) In these Regulations–

“the Act” means the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978;

[F1“the 2007 Act” means the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007;]

“the Agency” means the Common Services Agency for the Scottish Health Service constituted under section 10 of the Act M1;

“area medical committee” means the committee of that name for the area of a Health Board recognised under section 9 of the Act M2;

“area optical committee” means the committee of that name for the area of a Health Board recognised under section 9 of the Act;

[F1“barred from regulated work” means barred from regulated work with children or adults within the meaning of section 92(1) or (2) (individuals barred from regulated work) of the 2007 Act;]

“Board” means a Health Board constituted for any area under section 2 of the Act M3;

“body corporate” means a body corporate registered in the register of bodies corporate maintained under section 9 of the Opticians Act 1989 M4 carrying on business as an optometrist and includes a partnership and a limited liability partnership, and in relation to such partnerships, the reference to a director or other officer of a body corporate is a reference to a member;

“complex appliance” means an optical appliance at least one lens of which–

(a)

has a power in any one meridian of plus or minus 10 or more dioptres, or

(b)

is a prism controlled bifocal lens;

“condition for disqualification” means the first, second or third condition for disqualification in section 29 of the Act M5;

“conditional disqualification” has the same meaning as in section 29C(1) of the Act M6 and includes a decision under provisions in force in England, Wales or Northern Ireland corresponding (whether or not exactly) to a conditional disqualification, and “conditionally disqualified” shall be construed accordingly;

[F1“considered for listing” means considered for listing by the Scottish Ministers in the children’s list or adult’s list or in both lists in pursuance of section 10, 11, 12 or 13 (consideration whether to list) of the 2007 Act;]

“contractor” means a person who has undertaken to provide general ophthalmic services and whose name is included in the first part of the Ophthalmic List;

“corresponding decision” has the same meaning as in section 32D M7 of the Act;

“day centre” means an establishment attended by patients and accepted by the Board as suitable for the provision of general ophthalmic services in the Board's area for those patients who would have difficulty in obtaining such services from practice premises because of physical or mental illness or disability or because of difficulties in communicating their health needs unaided;

“deputy” means an ophthalmic medical practitioner or optician, whether or not a contractor, who provides general ophthalmic services on behalf of a contractor otherwise than as a director or salaried employee of that contractor;

“director” means–

(a)

a director of a body corporate; or

(b)

a member of the body of persons controlling a body corporate;

[F1“disclosure record” has the meaning given in section 97(1) of the 2007 Act;]

[F1“disclosure request” has the meaning given in section 97(1) of the 2007 Act;]

“disqualification” means disqualification by the Tribunal, (or a corresponding decision under provisions in force in England, Wales or Northern Ireland corresponding to disqualification), but does not include conditional disqualification, and “disqualified” shall be construed accordingly;

“doctor” means a registered medical practitioner;

[F2“EEA state” means a member State, Norway, Iceland or Lichtenstein;]

[F3“electronic communication” has the meaning given by section 15(1) of the Electronic Communications Act 2000;]

[F4“emergency eye examination” means an eye examination carried out, in circumstances that in the professional judgement of an ophthalmic medical practitioner or optician constitute an emergency, on the day that a person presents under regulation 21B or within a reasonable period thereof;]

“enactment” includes an enactment comprised in, or an instrument made under, an Act of the Scottish Parliament;

“enhanced criminal record certificate” has the meaning ascribed in [F5section 113B] of the Police Act 1997 M8;

“equivalent body” means–

(a)

in England, [F6NHS England];

(b)

in Wales, a Local Health Board;

(c)

in Northern Ireland, a Health and Social Services Board;

(ca)

[F7in relation to any time prior to 1st April 2013 and after 30th September 2002, a Primary Care Trust in England;]

(d)

in relation to any time prior to 1st October 2002, a Health Authority in England; or

(e)

in relation to any time prior to 1st April 2003, a Health Authority in Wales,

or any successor body;

“equivalent list” means a list kept by an equivalent body;

“eye examination” means a primary eye examination or a supplementary eye examination or both;

“eye examination form” means [F8an electronic form supplied by the Agency] which is to be completed for the purposes of payment in respect of an eye examination;

“fraud” means matters which it is the function of the Agency to prevent, detect or investigate by virtue of article 3(o) of the National Health Service (Functions of the Common Services Agency) (Scotland) Order 1974; M9

“general ophthalmic services” means the services which a contractor must provide pursuant to paragraph 14 of Schedule 1;

[F9“Goldmann type tonometer” includes a Perkins type tonometer;]

“licensing or regulatory body” means a body that licenses or regulates any profession of which the ophthalmic medical practitioner, or the optician (as the case may be) is, or has been a member, including a body regulating or licensing the education, training or qualifications of that profession, and includes any body which licenses or regulates any such profession, its education, training or qualifications, outside the United Kingdom;

“list” has, unless the context otherwise requires, the same meaning as in section 29(8) M10 of the Act;

“mobile practice” means a contractor who does not have practice premises in the Board's area but who has undertaken to provide general ophthalmic services [F10for a patient who is] at a day or residential centre [F11or [F12for a patient who is] at a place where the patient normally resides] in that part of the Board's area;

“ophthalmic hospital” includes an ophthalmic department of a hospital;

“Ophthalmic List” has the meaning assigned to it by regulation 6;

“ophthalmic medical practitioner” means a registered medical practitioner whose qualifications have been approved in accordance with regulation 4 or 5 as being prescribed qualifications;

“ophthalmic officer” means an ophthalmic medical practitioner, ophthalmic optician or ophthalmologist in the service of the Agency;

“Ophthalmic Qualifications Committee” means such committee appointed by organisations representative of the medical profession as may be recognised for the purposes of approving–

(a)

ophthalmic hospitals, academic degrees, academic or post graduate courses in ophthalmology and appointments affording special opportunities for acquiring the necessary skill and experience of the kind required for the provision of general ophthalmic services; and

(b)

the qualifications of doctors for the purpose of general ophthalmic services;

“optical appliance” means an appliance designed to correct, remedy or relieve a defect of sight;

“optician” means an ophthalmic optician as defined in section 108(1) of the Act M11;

“optometrist” means a person registered in the register of optometrists maintained under section 7 of the Opticians Act 1989 M12 F13... or a body corporate;

[F14“optometrist independent prescriber” means an optometrist who is a person against whose name is recorded in the register an annotation signifying that the person is qualified to order drugs, medicines and appliances];

“patient” means any person for whom a contractor has agreed to provide general ophthalmic services, or in respect of whom an ophthalmic medical practitioner or optician has agreed to assist in the provision of general ophthalmic services;

[F15“patient practice record form” means a form supplied by a Health Board which contains a declaration for the purposes of payment in respect of an eye examination by, or on behalf of, a person who applies to have such an examination;]

[F16“practice premises” means a place to which the public has unrestricted access during normal business hours and at [F17or from] which general ophthalmic services are provided;]

[F18“primary eye examination” means a general eye health check which includes a sight test, an internal and external examination of the eye as well as other tests and procedures appropriate to the needs of the patient;]

“professional conduct” includes matters relating both to professional conduct and professional performance;

“professional registration number” means the number against the ophthalmic medical practitioner or optician's name in the register;

“qualifications” includes qualifications as to experience;

F19...

[F20“records” means records kept in accordance with paragraph 8 of Schedule 1F21...;]

“register”–

(a)

in the case of an ophthalmic medical practitioner has the meaning given to it in section 2(2) of the Medical Act 1983 M13;

(b)

in the case of an optician means a person registered in the register of optometrists maintained under section 7 of the Opticians Act 1989 F22..., or, in the case of a body corporate, the register of bodies corporate carrying on business as an optometrist maintained under section 9 of that Act;

“relevant service in the armed forces” means whole time service in the armed forces of the Crown in a national emergency, as a volunteer or otherwise, or a compulsory whole-time service in those forces, including any service resulting from any reserve liability, or any equivalent service by a person liable for compulsory whole-time service in those forces;

[F23“remote facilities” means any equipment or facility which—

(a)

enables persons who are not in the same place to provide and receive general ophthalmic services, and

(b)

enables those persons to speak to and be heard by each other (whether or not it enables those persons to see and be seen by each other).]

F24...

“residential centre” means an establishment in the Board's area for patients who normally reside in that establishment and who are unable to leave the establishment unaccompanied because of physical or mental illness or disability;

[F1“scheme member” means a member of the Scheme, established by section 44 of the 2007 Act, in relation to both—

(a)

regulated work with children, as defined in section 91(2) (regulated work) of the 2007 Act; and

(b)

regulated work with adults, as defined in section 91(3) of the 2007 Act.]

“sight test” means a refraction to measure and correct the refractive error of the eyes by means of an optical appliance;

“the Statement” means the Statement prepared pursuant to the provisions of regulation 17;

“supplements” means prisms, tints, photochromic lenses, small glasses and complex appliances;

[F25“supplementary eye examination” means an eye health check which is either carried out—

(a)

after a primary eye examination for a particular reason which has arisen during the primary eye examination; or

(b)

in circumstances set out in regulation [F2622A(2)],

and includes the tests and procedures appropriate to the clinical needs of the patient;]

“suspended” means suspended as respects the provision of general ophthalmic services to patients or as respects assisting in the provision of such services by a direction of the Tribunal made pursuant to section 32A(2) (applications for interim suspension) M14 or section 32B(1) suspension pending appeal) M15 of the Act or to any provisions in force in England and Wales or Northern Ireland (corresponding whether or not exactly) to those provisions;

“terms of service” means the terms set out in Schedule 1;

“Tribunal” means the Tribunal constituted in accordance with the provisions of section 29 of, and Schedule 8 M16 to, the Act;

“working day” means a period of 7 hours 30 minutes on any day of the week, usually between the hours of 9.00am and 5.30pm with a 1 hour lunch break;

“writing” includes, except in regulation 7(1) electronic [F27communication] and “written” shall be construed accordingly.

(2) A reference to “the Agency” in these Regulations includes a reference to the Agency acting on behalf of a Board.

(3) Unless the context otherwise requires, any reference in these regulations to a numbered regulation or Schedule is to the regulation in or Schedule to these regulations which bears that number, any reference in a regulation or Schedule to a numbered paragraph is to the paragraph bearing that number in that regulation or Schedule, and any reference in a paragraph of Schedule 1 to a numbered sub paragraph is to the sub paragraph bearing that number in that paragraph.

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M1Section 10 was amended by the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19) (“the 1990 Act”), section 66(2) and Schedule 10; the 1999 Act section 65(1) and Schedule 4, paragraph 44(a); S.S.I. 1999/90, Art 2(a)(b) and Schedule 1, and is amended by the 2005 Act, Schedule 2, paragraph 2(a) with effect from 1st April 2006 in terms of S.S.I. 2006/121.

M2Section 9 was amended by the 1990 Act, section 29, the 1999 Act, section 65 and Schedule 4, paragraph 43, and the Primary Medical Services (Scotland) Act 2004 (asp 7), Schedule 2.

M3Section 2(1) was amended by the Health and Social Services and Social Security Adjudications Act 1983 (c. 41), Schedule 7, paragraph 1, and the 1990 Act, section 28.

M41989 c. 44; section 9 was amended by S.S.I. 2005/848, Art 9.

M5Section 29 was substituted by the 1999 Act, section 58, a relevant amendment is the 2005 Act, section 26 with effect from 1st April 2006 in terms of S.S.I. 2006/121.

M6Section 29C(1) was inserted by the Health Act 1999 (c. 8), section 58, and amended by S.S.I. 2004/167 and the 2005 Act, section 26 with effect from 1st April 2006 in terms of S.S.I. 2006/121.

M7Section 32D is substituted by the 2005 Act, section 27, with effect from 1st April 2006, in terms of S.S.I. 2006/121.

M81997 c. 50. Relevant amendments are the Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001 (c. 16) Schedule 6, paragraph 7, Schedule 7, part 5, and the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2003 (c. 7), section 70(3)(c).

M9S.I. 1974/467. Relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1991/900, S.S.I. 2000/224 and 2003/306.

M10Section 29(8) was amended by the Community Care and Health (Scotland) Act 2002 (asp 5) (“the 2002 Act”), sections 25 and 27(2) and Schedule 2, paragraph 2(4)(b), and the 2005 Act, section 26(2)(e), with effect from 1st April 2006, in terms of S.S.I. 2006/121.

M11The definition of “ophthalmic optician” was substituted by the Opticians Act 1989 (Amendment) Order 2005/848, Schedule 1(2), paragraph 10.

M12(c.44); section 7 was amended by S.I. 2005/848, Art 7.

M13(c.54); section 2(2) was amended by S.I. 1996/1591 Regulation 7 and Schedule 2, paragraph 1 and by the Medical Act 1983 (Amendment) Order 2002/3135, article 9(1).

M14Section 32A(2) was inserted by the National Health Service (Amendment) Act 1995 (c. 31) (“the 1995 Act”) section 1 amended by the 1999 Act, section 65 and Schedule 4, paragraph 51 and the 2005 Act, section 26(7)(b), with effect from 1st April 2006, in terms of S.S.I. 2006/ .

M15Section 32B(1) was substituted by the 1995 Act, section 8 and amended by the 1999 Act, section 65 and Schedule 4, paragraph 52, and by the 2005 Act, Schedule 3 with effect from 1st April 2006, in terms of S.S.I. 2006/ .

M16Schedule 8 was amended by the 1995 Act, section 12, S.I. 1995/3214; the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997 (c. 46), section 41(10), and Schedule 2, Part II, paragraph 58; S.I. 1998/631; the 1999 Act, sections 653 and Schedule 4, paragraph 64, and by the 2005 Act, Schedule 2, paragraph 2 with effect from 1st April 2006, in terms of S.S.I. 2006/122.

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