This Order varies the areas of Scotland for which Greater Glasgow and Highland Health Boards are constituted.

Article 3(1) varies the area for which Highland Health Board is constituted to include so much of the area of Argyll and Clyde Health Board as is situated in the local government area of Argyll and Bute Council, and varies the area of Greater Glasgow Health Board to include the remainder of the area of Argyll and Clyde Health Board on 1st April 2006. The functions of Argyll and Clyde Health Board are terminated on 1st April 2006. Article 3(2) makes consequential amendments to the National Health Service (Determination of Areas of Health Boards) (Scotland) Order 1974 following these variations.

Supplementary to the variation of the areas of Greater Glasgow and Highland Health Boards, and the termination of functions of Argyll and Clyde Health Board–

• part 3, articles 4 to 6, makes provision for the transfer of the employment of employees;

• part 4, articles 7, and 8, makes provision for the transfer of property and other rights and liabilities;

• article 9 sets out requirements for publication of the schemes made under articles 4(1) and 7(1);

• part 5 makes provision in respect of the dental, ophthalmic, pharmaceutical, provisional pharmaceutical, and primary medical services lists held by Argyll and Clyde Health Board;

• article 10 provides that the dental, ophthalmic, pharmaceutical, and provisional pharmaceutical lists of Greater Glasgow Health Board and Highland Health Board respectively as at 1st April 2006 shall be deemed to include the entries on the dental, ophthalmic, pharmaceutical and provisional pharmaceutical lists of Argyll and Clyde Health Board in so far as these entries relate to places or premises the addresses of which are situated in the areas of these Boards respectively on lst April 2006, and that anything done in respect of such a list held by Argyll and Clyde Health Board prior to 1st April 2006 shall be deemed to have been done in respect of the list held by Greater Glasgow Health Board or Highland Health Board, as the case may be;

• article 11 provides that the ophthalmic lists of both Greater Glasgow Health Board and Highland Health Board shall be deemed to include the entries relating to mobile practices on the ophthalmic list of Argyll and Bute Health Board as at 31st March 2006, and that anything done in respect of that list held by Argyll and Clyde Health Board as it relates to mobile practices prior to 1st April 2006 shall be deemed to have been done in respect of the list held by Greater Glasgow Health Board or Highland Health Board, as the case may be; and

• article 12 provides that the primary medical performers lists of both Greater Glasgow Health Board and Highland Health Board shall be deemed to include the entries relating to the primary medical performers' list of Argyll and Bute Health Board as at 31st March 2006, and that anything done in respect of that list held by Argyll and Clyde Health Board prior to 1st April 2006 shall be deemed to have been done in respect of the list held by Greater Glasgow Health Board or Highland Health Board, as the case may be.