SCHEDULE 1TERMS OF SERVICE

PaymentsI113

1

Any claim by a contractor for fees in respect of the provision of general ophthalmic services shall be made by completing or securing the completion of a sight test form and sending it to the Agency within six months from and including the date of completion of the provision of the services.

2

Any such claim shall be signed—

a

if the contractor is a body corporate, by any of its directors who is a contractor, who takes part in the provision of general ophthalmic services at the address at which the relevant service was provided or by any of its employees who is such a contractor;

b

if the contractor is not a body corporate—

i

if the Service was provided on his behalf by a deputy or employee who is also a contractor, by the deputy or employee who shall give the name of the contractor on whose behalf the service was provided;

ii

in other cases by the contractor himself.

3

A signatory shall sign any such claim in ink with his initials or forename and with his surname in his own handwriting and not by means of a stamp.

4

Except as may be provided in the regulations, in F1these Regulations or in sub-paragraph (5), a contractor shall not demand or accept from any patient or from other persons the payment of any fee or other remuneration in respect of the provision of general ophthalmic services.

5

A contractor shall be entitled to demand and recover from a patient or person having charge of a patient, a sum in respect of loss of remunerative time resulting from that patient’s failure to keep an appointment.

6

A contractor shall not demand or accept from the Agency the payment of any fee or remuneration in respect of any item of service—

a

which has not been provided under general ophthalmic services; or

b

for which another claim has already been submitted to the Agency.