These Regulations further amend the National Health Service (Service Committee and Tribunal) (Scotland) Regulations 1992 (“the principal Regulations”). The definition of “practitioner” is expanded by regulation 2 to include members of all the health professions covered by the Regulations, and the expression “professional person” is now omitted. Regulations 3 and 5 to 7 implement the consequential amendments. These changes are to ensure that the principal Regulations apply equally to each of the professions and to remove a source of possible confusion.

Regulation 4 amends regulation 24 of the principal Regulations to change the time limit for the making of representations in respect of applications by doctors for preferential treatment on transferring to medical lists.