Statutory Instruments of the Scottish Parliament

(a) in column 2, for "Allowance for practice improvements" there is substituted "Allowances and grants for practice improvements"; and

(b) at the end of columns 1 and 2 respectively there is inserted "XIII" and "Recruitment and retention allowances".

MALCOLM CHISHOLM
A member of the Scottish Executive

St Andrew's House, Edinburgh
6th June 2002

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the National Health Service (General Dental Services) (Scotland) Regulations 1996, which make arrangements under which dentists provide general dental services as part of the National Health Service in Scotland.

Regulation 2 amends the table in regulation 22 of the 1996 Regulations.

Paragraph (a) of that regulation substitutes a new title for determination X, changing it from "Allowance for practice improvements" to "Allowances and grants for practice improvements". This will enable grants to be made towards practice improvements as well as the making of allowances for such improvements.

Paragraph (b) of that regulation adds a new determination XIII (Recruitment and retention allowances) to the table. Under this determination allowances will be payable to certain categories of practitioner in order to provide incentives for the recruitment and retention of dentists providing general dental services in Scotland.

[1] 1978 c.29; section 25(2) was amended by the Health and Medicines Act 1988 (c.49) ("the 1988 Act"), Schedule 2, paragraph 11, by the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c.19), section 40(2) and Schedule 9, paragraph 19(6) and by the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997 (c.46), Schedule 2, paragraph 43 and Schedule 3 and was extended by the 1988 Act, section 17; section 105(7) which contains provisions relevant to the making of regulations, was amended by the Health Services Act 1980 (c.53), Schedule 6, paragraph 5 and Schedule 7, by the Health and Social Services and Social Security Adjudications Act 1983 (c.41), Schedule 9, paragraph 24, and by the Health Act 1999 (c.8) ("the 1999 Act"), Schedule 4, paragraph 60; section 108(1) contains definitions of "prescribed" and "regulations" relevant to the exercise of the statutory powers under which these Regulations are made. See section 66(1) of the 1999 Act in relation to any provision of that Act being taken to be a pre-commencement enactment within the meaning of the Scotland Act 1998 (c.46). The functions of the Secretary of State were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998.back

[2] S.I. 1996/177; relevant amending instruments are S.S.I. 2000/352, 2001/368 and 2002/99.back

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