PART VIGENERAL HEALTH SERVICES
F5 Persons performing primary medical services
Persons performing primary medical servicesF157G
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For the purposes of this Article—
a
“health care professional” has the same meaning as in Article 15C;
b
F7the Department is responsible for a primary medical service if it provides the service, or secures provision of the service, under or by virtue of Article 56.
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Regulations under paragraph (1) may make provision in relation to such lists and in particular as to—
a
the preparation, maintenance and publication of a list;
b
eligibility for inclusion in a list;
c
applications for inclusion (including provision F3. . . for the procedure for applications and the documents to be supplied on application);
d
the grounds on which an application for inclusion may or must be granted or refused;
e
requirements with which a person included in a list must comply (including the declaration of financial interests and gifts and other benefits);
f
suspension or removal from a list or references to the Tribunal (including the grounds for and consequences of suspension or removal, or reference);
g
circumstances in which a person included in a list may not withdraw from it;
h
payments to be made in respect of a person suspended from the list (including provision for the amount of, or the method of calculating, the payment to be determined by the Department, or a person appointed by it);
i
the criteria to be applied in making decisions under the regulations;
k
disclosure of information about applicants for inclusion, refusals of applications, or suspensions, removals or references.
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Regulations under paragraph (1) may, in particular, also provide for—
a
a person's inclusion or continued inclusion in a list to be subject to conditions determined by F10the Department ;
b
F10the Department to vary the conditions or impose different ones;
c
the consequences of failing to comply with a condition (including removal from a list);
d
the review by a Board of decisions made by it by virtue of the regulations.
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The imposition of such conditions may be with a view to—
a
preventing any prejudice to the efficiency of the services to which the list relates, or
b
preventing fraud.
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Regulations making provision as to the matters referred to in paragraph (3)(j) may make provision—
a
as to the members of the body, including the terms and conditions of their appointment;
b
for the payment of fees and allowances to members of the body.
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