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The instrument contains a few typographical errors and points of interpretation that, although not desperately significant, should be drawn to the Executive's attention. Perhaps, because of the time scale and so on, we can do that by an informal letter.
You get your red pencil out, deputy convener, and send it back to them.
Apparently, paragraph (4) of the enabling power—section 17E of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978—states that the regulations must include provision for a medical practitioner who has performed or provided personal medical services in accordance with section 17C arrangements to be allowed to return to fund-holding status in certain circumstances. We should ask the Executive whether that provision is still relevant and, if so, how it is reflected in the regulations.
I do not think that there are still any fund-holders.
We should ask the Executive whether the provision is still relevant, because vestigial aspects of fund-holding might remain.