SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 1Transfer of the Regional Board’s functions
Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972
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For Articles 63A and 63B substitute—
Additional pharmaceutical services63A
1
The Department may make arrangements for the provision of additional pharmaceutical services.
2
The arrangements—
a
may be made on such terms as the Department thinks appropriate;
b
may impose, on any person providing a service in accordance with the arrangements, such conditions as the Department thinks appropriate.
3
But the arrangements must secure that any service to which they apply is provided only by a person whose name is included in a pharmaceutical list.
4
Different arrangements may be made with respect to—
a
different services;
b
the provision of the same service by the same person but in different circumstances;
c
the provision of the same service by different persons.
5
The Department must provide details of any proposed arrangements(including the remuneration to be offered for the provision of services) to any person who asks for them.
6
The Department must publish such details as it thinks appropriate of arrangements under this Article—
a
in the Drug Tariff, or
b
in such other manner as it thinks appropriate.
7
In this Article—
“additional pharmaceutical services” means services of a kind that do not fall within Article 63;
“Drug Tariff” means the Drug Tariff published under regulation 9 of the Pharmaceutical Services Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997 or under any corresponding provision replacing, or otherwise derived from, that regulation;
“pharmaceutical list” means, subject to the arrangements made, a list—
- a
published by the Department in accordance with regulations made under Article 63AA(2)(za); or
- b
published by any body in accordance with regulations made under—
- i
section 27(3)(a) of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978,
- ii
section 129(2)(a) of the National Health Service Act 2006,
- iii
section 83(2)(a) of the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006, or
- iv
any provision of the law of Scotland or England and Wales that re-enacts (with or without amendment) any of those sections.