National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990

[F1 4A Provision of certain services under NHS contracts. E+W

(1) This section applies to any arrangement under which 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—

• “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 [F2 39(1)(a)] of the principal Act;

  (b)

  section 26(2)(a) of the M1 National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978; or

  (c)

  Article 62(2)(a) of the M2 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.]

Textual Amendments

F1 S. 4A inserted (1.9.1997) by 1997 c. 46, s. 31(1); S.I. 1997/1780,

F2 Words in s. 4A(3) substituted (1.7.2002) by virtue of 2001 c. 15, s. 67, Sch. 5 Pt. 1 para. 8 (with ss. 64(9), 65(4)); S.I. 2002/1475, art. 2, Sch. Pt. 1

Marginal Citations

M1 1978 c. 29.

M2 S.I. 1972/1265 (N.I.14).