Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.-(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Health and Medicines Act 1988 (Superannuation) (Savings for Retired Practitioners) (Scotland) Regulations 1989 and shall come into force on 1st April 1990.

(2) In these Regulations "the Superannuation Regulations" means the National Health Service (Superannuation) (Scotland) Regulations 1980( (2)) and other words and expressions used have the same meaning as in the Superannuation Regulations.

Savings in respect of practitioners' superannuation

2. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 9 of the Health and Medicines Act 1988( (3)) (revocation of regulation 75 of the Superannuation Regulations( (4)) and consequent reduction of pension on re-employment as a practitioner after attaining the age of 65 years), where at any time in the period beginning on 1st March 1990 and ending on 31st March 1990-

(a)a practitioner between the ages of 65 and 70 years, who became entitled to a pension as a practitioner on or after attaining the age of 65 years, was engaged in further employment as a practitioner, and

(b)regulation 75 of the Superannuation Regulations operated in his case with the result that such further employment was disregarded for the purpose of determining whether the pension payable to him under the Superannuation Regulations should be reduced,

any further employment, between the ages of 65 and 70 years, by that practitioner shall continue to be disregarded as if regulation 75 had not been revoked.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations make savings in connection with the coming into force on 1st April 1990 of section 9 of the Health and Medicines Act 1988 ( "the Act"). That section revokes regulation 75 of the National Health Service (Superannuation) (Scotland) Regulations 1980 under which further employment as a medical or dental practitioner within the National Health Service, between the ages of 65 and 70 years, is disregarded for the purpose of determining whether there should be a reduction in a pension payable under those Regulations. Regulation 2 of these Regulations, however, enables those practitioners who, in the month preceding the coming into force of section 9 of the Act, were taking advantage of regulation 75 to continue to do so as if that provision had not been revoked.