1. [F1The Department may, in accordance with paragraphs 1A to 5,] make loans to practitioners providing[F2 primary medical services] for the purpose of enabling them—
(a)to provide, or to acquire a share in, premises used or to be used, in whole or in part, for the provision of those services;
(b)to alter, enlarge, improve or repair such premises;
(c)to acquire any land required for the erection of, or in connection with the use of, such premises;
(d)to acquire any equipment or furniture needed by them in the provision of those services;
(e)to repay any loan raised by them for any such purpose.
F1Words in Sch. 9 para. 1 substituted (1.4.2022) by Health and Social Care Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 (c. 3), s. 8(1)(b), Sch. 1 para. 51(2); S.R. 2022/102, art. 2(b)