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1988 No. 2259 (S.221)

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, SCOTLAND

The National Health Service (General Medical and Pharmaceutical Services) (Scotland) Amendment (No .3) Regulations 1988

Made

16th December 1988

Laid before Parliament

11th January 1989

Coming into force

1st February 1989

The Secretary of State, in exercise of powers conferred on him by sections 19, 27 and 108(1) of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 (1), and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.-(1) These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (General Medical and Pharmaceutical Services) (Scotland) Amendment (No.3) Regulations 1988 and shall come into force on 1st February 1989.

(2) In these Regulations "the principal Regulations" means the National Health Service (General Medical and Pharmaceutical Services) (Scotland) Regulations 1974 (2).

Amendments to the principal Regulations

2. In Schedule 2A to the principal Regulations (drugs and other substances not to be supplied by general medical practitioners or prescribed for supply under pharmaceutical services) (3)the following entries shall be deleted:-

3. In Schedule 2A to the principal Regulations each of the following entries shall be inserted at the appropriate point in the alphabetical order:-

Michael B Forsyth

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office

St Andrew's House,

Edinburgh

16th December 1988

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the National Health Service (General Medical and Pharmaceutical Services) (Scotland) Regulations 1974 ("the principal Regulations") which regulate the terms on which doctors and chemists provide general medical services and pharmaceutical services under the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978.

Schedule 2A to the principal Regulations lists drugs and other substances which cannot be supplied by doctors, or prescribed for supply under pharmaceutical services. Regulation 2 deletes from that Schedule two substances the names of which had been mis-spelt. Regulation 3 reintroduces those two substances, with names correctly spelt, and adds others, to that Schedule.

(1)

1978 c. 29; section 19 was amended by the Health Services Act 1980 (c. 53) ("the 1980 Act"). section 7, by the Health and Social Services and Social Security Adjudications Act 1983 (c. 41), Schedule 7, paragraph 2, and by the Medical Act 1983 (c. 54), Schedule 5. paragraph 17(a); section 27 was amended by the 1980 Act, section 20(2), and by the National Health Service (Amendment) Act 1986 (c. 66), section 3(3); see section 108(1) for definitions of "prescribed" and "regulations".

(2)

S.I. 1974/506 relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1985/296, 534, 804 and 1713, 1986/303, 925, 1507 and 2310, 1987/1382, 1988/1073

(3)

Schedule 2A was inserted by S.I. 1985/296; the relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1988/1073


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