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The National Health Service (General Medical Services) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1997

Type Statutory-Instrument
Publication 1997-03-20
State In force
Department Queen's Printer of Acts of Parliament
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Made: 20th March 1997

Laid before Parliament: 20th March 1997

Coming into force: 1st July 1997

The Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of powers conferred on him by sections 29 and 126(4) of the National Health Service Act 1977[^f00001] and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:—

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1

These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (General Medical Services) Amendment (No. 2) Regulation 1997 and shall come into force on 1st July 1997.

Amendment of the National Health Service (General Medical Services) Regulations 1992

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Locabiotal Aerosol Any patient Treatment of infections and inflammation of the oropharynx

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health

Gerald Malone — Minister of State, — Department of Health — 20th March 1997

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations further amend the National Health Service (General Medical Services) Regulations 1992 (“the principal Regulations”) which regulate the terms on which doctors provide general medical services under the National Health Service Act 1977.

Regulation 2(2) removes certain drugs or other substances from the list in Schedule 10 to the principal Regulations, which lists drugs and other substances which may not be prescribed for supply in the course of pharmaceutical services under the National Health Service Act 1977. Regulation 2(3) includes certain drugs or other substances in that list. Regulation 2(4) includes another drug in Schedule 11 to the principal Regulations, which lists drugs which may be prescribed only in certain circumstances.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 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 type=start slip=1997-05-01 time=1188299773791type=end slip=1997-05-01 time=1188299773791Services Act 1980 (c. 53), sections 1 and 7 and Schedule 1, paragraph 42(b); by the Healthtype=start slip=1997-05-01 time=1188299759510 andtype=end slip=1997-05-01 time=1188299759510 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); and by the Health Authorities Act 1995 (c. 17), Schedule 1, paragraph 18. Section 126(4) was amended by the 1990 Act, section 65(2).

[^f00002]: S.I. 1992/635; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1992/2412, 1993/2421, 1994/2620 and 1995/3093.

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