The National Health Service (Vocational Training) Amendment Regulations 1991

• Citation: S.I. 1991/406
• Sections: 2

Section 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1) These Regulations may be cited as The National Health Service (Vocational Training) Amendment Regulations 1991 and shall come into force on 1st April 1991.

(2) In these Regulations, “the principal Regulations ” means the NationalHealth Service (Vocational Training) Regulations 1979 .

Section 2 Amendment of the principal Regulations

(1) The principal Regulations shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraphs of this regulation.

(2) In regulation 2(1) (interpretation), in the definition of “health authority” for the words “includes a” there shall be substituted the words “includes an NHS trust and any”

(3) In regulation 8 (exemptions)—

(a) in paragraph (1)(e) for the words from “either maternity” to the end of the sub-paragraph there shall be substituted the words

general medical services limited to—

(i) child health surveillance services only,

(ii) contraceptive services only,

(iii) maternity medical services only, or

(iv) minor surgery services only,

or to any combinaiton of those services;

(b) in paragraph (4)—

(i) for sub-paragraph (a) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraphs:—

(a) “child health surveillance services”, “maternity medical services” and “minor surgery services” have the meanings assigned by regulation 2(1) of the National Health Service (General Medical and Pharmaceutical Services) Regulations 1974 ;

(aa) “contraceptive services” has the meaning assigned by regulation 3(1)(b) of those Regulations;

(ii) for the words from “providing maternity” to “such services only” there shall be substituted the words “providing general medical services limited as mentioned in paragraph (1)(e),”.