National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990

Valid from 01/09/1997

[F14A 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 39(a) of the principal Act;

    (b)

    section 26(2)(a) of the M1National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978; or

    (c)

    Article 62(2)(a) of the M2Health 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

F1S. 4A inserted (1.9.1997) by 1997 c. 46, s. 31(1); S.I. 1997/1780,

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