Scottish Statutory Instruments
National Health Service
Made
13th November 2013
Laid before the Scottish Parliament
15th November 2013
Coming into force
14th December 2013
The Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 75A, 105(7) and 108(1) of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978(1) and all other powers enabling them to do so.
1978 c.29. 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), section 25(1) and Schedule 2 paragraph 13; the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c.19), section 66(1) and Schedule 9 paragraph 19(13)(a) and (b); the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997 (c.46), Schedule 2(I) paragraph 50; and by S.I. 1998/2385, S.S.I. 2010/283 and S.S.I. 2013/177; section 105(7) was amended by the Health Services Act 1980 (c.53), Schedule 6 paragraph 5(1)(a), (c) and (d) and Schedule 7; the Health and Social Services and Social Security Adjudications Act 1983 (c.41), section 29(1) and Schedule 9 Part 1 paragraph 24; and the Health Act 1999 (c.8), Schedule 4 paragraph 60; Section 108(1) contains definitions of “prescribed” and “regulations” relevant to the exercise of the statutory powers under which these Regulations are made. The functions of the Secretary of State were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c.46).