The National Health Service (Charges for Drugs and Appliances) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2010

Amendment of the principal Regulations

2.—(1) The principal Regulations are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 2(1) (interpretation) in the definition of “terms of service” for “National Health Service (General Dental Services) (Scotland) Regulations 1996” substitute “National Health Service (General Dental Services) (Scotland) Regulations 2010”.

(3) After regulation 2(2)(b) insert—

“(c) the supply of quantities of the same drug in more than one strength against an order on a single Scottish prescription form or a single equivalent prescription form (or more than one form where the forms presented have been ordered by the same person, for the patient, on the same date) shall be deemed to be the supply of only one quantity of a drug.”.

(4) After regulation 3(2)(b) (cases where chemist does not make or recover charges) insert—

“; or

(c) an equivalent prescription form provided and issued under arrangements having effect in Northern Ireland is presented by the patient.”.

(5) In regulation 3(6) (cases where sum due by a Health Board to a chemist is reduced) after “paragraph (2)(a) or (b)” insert “or provision in consequence of the presentation of an equivalent prescription form provided and issued under arrangements having effect in Northern Ireland”.

(6) In regulation 7(1) (exemptions)—

(a) in sub-paragraph (e) for “, Wales or Northern Ireland” substitute “or Wales”;

(b) in sub-paragraph (g) for “, Wales or Northern Ireland” substitute “or Wales”;

(c) in sub-paragraph (k) omit “or Northern Ireland”;

(d) after sub-paragraph (k) insert—

“(1) a person who presents an equivalent prescription form provided and issued under arrangements having effect in Northern Ireland.”.

(7) After regulation 7(2)(d) (conditions required for exemption from charges) insert—

“(e) the supply is in consequence of the presentation of an equivalent prescription form provided and issued under arrangements having effect in Northern Ireland.”.