SCHEDULE 9 Additional Provisions as to Prohibition of Sale of Medical Practices
National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 (1978 c 29) | Legislation

SCHEDULE 9 Additional Provisions as to Prohibition of Sale of Medical Practices

Section 35

Prohibition, and certificate of Practices Committee

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(1)     Any person who sells or buys the goodwill. . . of a medical practice which it is unlawful to sell by virtue of section 35(1) is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction on indictment to a fine not exceeding—

(a)     such amount as will in the court's opinion secure that he derives no benefit from the offence, and

(b)     the further sum of £500,

or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 months, or to both such fine and such imprisonment.

[(2)     Any person proposing to be a party to a transaction or series of transactions which he thinks might amount to a sale of the goodwill of a medical practice in contravention of section 35(1) may ask the Medical Practices Committee for a certificate under this paragraph.]

(3)     The Committee shall consider any such application, and, if they are satisfied that the transaction or series of transactions does hot involve the giving of valuable consideration in respect of the goodwill. . . of such a medical practice, they shall issue to the applicant a certificate to

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