Part 2Health service bodies
F1CHAPTER A2Clinical commissioning groups
F2Board's functions in relation to clinical commissioning groups
14Z7Responsibility for payments to providers
(1)
The Board may publish a document specifying—
(a)
circumstances in which a clinical commissioning group is liable to make a payment to a person in respect of services provided by that person in pursuance of arrangements made by another clinical commissioning group in the discharge of its commissioning functions, and
(b)
how the amount of any such payment is to be determined.
(2)
A clinical commissioning group is required to make payments in accordance with any document published under subsection (1).
(3)
Where a clinical commissioning group is required to make a payment by virtue of subsection (2), no other clinical commissioning group is liable to make it.
(4)
Accordingly, any obligation of another clinical commissioning group to make the payment ceases to have effect.
(5)
Any sums payable by virtue of subsection (2) may be recovered summarily as a civil debt (but this does not affect any other method of recovery).
(6)
The Board may publish guidance for clinical commissioning groups for the purpose of assisting them in understanding and applying any document published under subsection (1).
(7)
In this section and section 14Z8, “commissioning functions” means the functions of clinical commissioning groups in arranging for the provision of services as part of the health service.