PART 5CONTRACTS: MANDATORY TERMS

Additional obligations in relation to practice premises24

1

A contractor who receives financial assistance must comply with the obligations set out in schedule 3 throughout the period that the contractor receives that assistance and a term to this effect must be included in the contract.

2

In this regulation, “financial assistance” means financial assistance from a Health Board or the Scottish Ministers in the form of—

a

a recurring payment to the contractor of—

i

the contractor’s owner-occupier borrowing costs;

ii

notional rent payments to the contractor as an owner-occupier; or

iii

reimbursement of the contractor’s rent payments,

in accordance with directions under sections 2(5) and 17M(3) of the Act67; or

b

a loan secured over the practice premises.