Statutory Instruments
NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND
Made
7th March 2000
Laid before Parliament
8th March 2000
Coming into force
1st April 2000
The Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 29 and 126(4) of the National Health Service Act 1977(1), and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:
1.-(1) These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (General Medical Services) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2000 and shall come into force on 1st April 2000.
(2) In these Regulations, the "1992 Regulations" means the National Health Service (General Medical Services) Regulations 1992(2).
(3) These Regulations extend to England only.
2.-(1) In regulation 34(2) of the 1992 Regulations (payments), for sub-paragraph (e) shall be substituted-
"(e)allowances for study leave;".
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health
John Denham
Minister of State,
Department of Health
7th March 2000
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations further amend the National Health Service (General Medical Services) Regulations 1992 ("the 1992 Regulations"), which regulate the terms on which General Medical Services are provided under the National Health Service Act 1977.
Regulation 34(2) is amended to remove the reference to allowances for training doctors from the matters for which provision shall be made in a determination under paragraph (1) of that regulation. Health Authorities are now to make payments in respect of allowances for training doctors in accordance with the directions to Health Authorities concerning GP Registrars.
1977 c. 49; see section 128(1) as amended by the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19) ("the 1990 Act"), section 26(2)(g) and (i), for the definitions of "prescribed" and "regulations". Section 29 was extended by the Health and Medicines Act 1988 (c. 49), section 17; and amended by the Health Services Act 1980 (c. 53), sections 1 and 7 and Schedule 1, paragraph 42(b); by the Health and Social Services and Social Security Adjudications Act 1983 (c. 41), Schedule 6, paragraph 2; by the Medical Act 1983 (c. 54), section 56(1) and Schedule 5, paragraph 16(a); by S.I. 1985/39, article 7(3); by the Health Authorities Act 1995 (c. 17), Schedule 1, paragraph 18; and by the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997 (c. 46), Schedule 2, paragraph 8. Section 126(4) was amended by the 1990 Act, section 65(2); and by the Health Act 1999 (c. 8), Schedule 4, paragraph 37(6). As regards Wales, the functions of the Secretary of State under sections 29 and 126(4) of the 1977 Act are transferred to the National Assembly for Wales under article 2 of, and Schedule 1 to, the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999, S.I. 1999/672; these Regulations therefore extend only to England.