The National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (Commencement No.8 and Transitional Provisions) (Scotland) Order 1991
Article 2 of this Order brings into force on 1st April 1991 section 38 of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (“the 1990 Act”), which makes provision in relation to the Scottish Medical Practices Committee section 39 of the Act, which makes provisions in relation to the selection of general medical practitioners, conditions in relation to their hours of work and job-sharing and appeals and sub-section (3) of section 59 which extends the application of the House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975 (c. 24) to chairmen and members (not being also employees) of Health Boards, the Common Services Agency and the Management Committee of a state hospital. Section 39(4) of the 1990 Act is not brought into force in so far as that sub-section repeals words in section 23(5) of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 which preclude a right of appeal to the Secretary of State where an application for inclusion in a medical list is refused on the ground that the applicant is not suitably experienced or is over the age at which doctors must retire.