The General Medical Services and Section 17C Agreements (Transitional and other Ancillary Provisions) (Scotland) Order 2004

Interpretation

76.—(1) In this Part–

“appropriate Health Board” has the same meaning as in the Service Committees Regulations;

“contracting Health Board” means a Health Board that has entered into a default contract or a general medical services contract (as the case may be) with–

(a)

a doctor who is the subject of the allegation;

(b)

a partnership, where a doctor who is the subject of the allegation is a partner;

(c)

a limited company, where a doctor who is the subject of the allegation is the legal and beneficial shareholder of shares in that company;

“doctor” has the same meaning as in the Service Committees Regulations;

“Performers List Health Board” means a Health Board in whose primary medical services performers list the doctor’s name appears on 1st April 2004 pursuant to article 86;

“relevant contractor” means a party to a general medical services contract or default contract with a contracting Health Board, where that contractor is–

(a)

a doctor who is the subject of the allegation;

(b)

a partnership, where a doctor who is or was the subject of the allegation is a partner in that partnership;

(c)

a limited company, where a doctor who is or was the subject of the allegation is the legal and beneficial shareholder of shares in that company; and

“relevant date” means 1st April 2004.

“the Service Committees Regulations” means the National Health Service (Service Committees and Tribunal) (Scotland) Regulations 1992(1);

(2) Unless the context otherwise requires, any reference in this Part to–

(a) a numbered regulation is to the regulation bearing that number in the Service Committees Regulations; and

(b) a numbered Schedule is to the Schedule to the Service Committees Regulations bearing that number.

(1)

S.I. 1992/434. Relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1994/3138, 1996/938, 1998/1424 and S.S.I. 1999/53.