
1 
These Regulations may be cited as the Adults with Incapacity (Requirements for Signing Medical Treatment Certificates) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2012 and come into force on 2nd July 2012.
2 
For regulation 2 of the Adults with Incapacity (Requirements for Signing Medical Treatment Certificates) (Scotland) Regulations 2007 substitute—“
2. 
The requirements prescribed for the purposes of section 47(1A)(b) of the Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000 are that the person concerned must have had their knowledge of how to assess an individual’s capacity to be able to make decisions as to that individual’s medical treatment certified by—
(a) a body specified in schedule 2 of the Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Act 2005; or
(b) NHS Education for Scotland.”.
MICHAEL MATHESON
Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
29th May 2012