S.I. No. 159/1954 - General Medical Services (Amendment) Regulations, 1954.

S.I. No. 159 of 1954.

GENERAL MEDICAL SERVICES (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1954.

The Minister for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 22 of the Health Act, 1953 (No. 26 of 1953), hereby makes the following Regulations :—

1. These Regulations may be cited as the General Medical Services (Amendment) Regulations, 1954.

2. In these Regulations, " the Principal Regulations " means the General Medical Services Regulations, 1954 ( S.I. No. 102 of 1954 ).

3. These Regulations shall come into operation on 1st day of August, 1954.

4. The definition of " General Practitioner Service " in Article 2 of the Principal Regulations shall be amended by the insertion after " Act " of " and does not include services under the Maternity and Child Health Services Regulations, 1954 ( S.I. No. 98 of 1954 ) ".

5. Article 6 of the Principal Regulations shall be amended by the insertion after sub-article (2) of the following sub-article :—

" (3) A medical practitioner aggrieved by a decision of a health authority that the summoning of another medical practitioner under this Article was not necessary may appeal to the Minister and the Minister, after consideration of such appeal and of the representations (if any) of such health authority in relation thereto, shall either (as he thinks proper) refuse such appeal or give to such health authority such direction as he considers will remedy the grievance of such medical practitioner ".

6. In Article 7 of the Principal Regulations, " where she or he is not being attended by a district medical officer " and " other " shall be deleted.

7. In Article 21 of the Principal Regulations, " in reward for " shall be substituted for " in respect of ".

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Health this Thirty-first day of July, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Fifty-four.

THOMAS F. O'HIGGINS,

Minister for Health.