The National Health Service (General Medical and Pharmaceutical Services) (Scotland) Amendment (No.2) Regulations 1988

• Citation: S.I. 1988/1454
• Sections: 2

Section 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (General Medical and Pharmaceutical Services) (Scotland) Amendment (No.2) Regulations 1988 and shall come into force on 7th September 1988.

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

Section 2 Amendment to the principal Regulations

In Schedule 4 to the principal Regulations (list of prescribed medical certificates)( ) there shall be inserted the following:—

(a) in the column headed “Medical Certificate” the words—

(13) To support claim by or on behalf of a severely mentally impaired person for exemption from liability to pay the personal community charge.

(b) in the column headed “Short title of enactment under or for the purpose of which certificate required”, and opposite item 13 above mentioned, the words—

Abolition of Domestic Rates Etc. (Scotland) Act 1987 ( 1987 c. 47) .