The National Health Service (Charges for Drugs and Appliances) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1990

Amendment of regulation 7 (“Exemptions”) of the principal Regulations

3.  In regulation 7(1)(e)(ii) of the principal Regulations (“Exemptions”)–

(a) the words “the following disorders for which specific substitution therapy is essential:–” shall be deleted;

(b) for the words from “Addison’s disease” to “hypoadrenalism,” there shall be substituted the words “forms of hypoadrenalism (including Addison’s disease) for which specific substitution therapy is required,”; and

(c) after the words “diabetes mellitus” there shall be inserted the words “except where treatment is by diet alone”.