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[4A Provision of certain services under NHS contracts.E+W
(1)This section applies to any arrangement under which [a Strategic Health Authority,][a Primary Care Trust,] a Health Authority or such other health service body as may be prescribed arrange for the provision to them—
(a)by a person on an ophthalmic list, or
(b)by a person on a pharmaceutical list,
of goods or services that they reasonably require for the purposes of functions which they are exercising under Part I of the principal Act .
(2)Any such arrangement is to be treated as an NHS contract for the purposes of section 4 (other than subsections (4) and (6)).
(3)In this section—
[“general ophthalmic services contract” and “contractor” under such a contract have the meanings given by section 28WA of the principal Act;]
“health service body” means a body which is a health service body for the purposes of section 4;
“ophthalmic list” means a list published in accordance with regulations made under—
(a)
section [39(1)(a)] of the principal Act;
(b)
section 26(2)(a) of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978; or
(c)
Article 62(2)(a) of the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972; and
“pharmaceutical list” means a list published in accordance with regulations made under—
(a)
section 42(2)(a) of the principal Act;
(b)
section 27(2) of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978; or
(c)
Article 63(2A)(a) of the 1972 Order.
[(4)In subsection (3), in paragraph (b) of the definition of “ophthalmic list” the reference to a list published in accordance with regulations made under paragraph (a) of section 26(2) of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 is a reference to the first part of the list (referred to in sub-paragraph (i) of that paragraph) which is published in accordance with regulations under that paragraph.]]
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