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5.—(1) A health authority which supplies to a patient, for the purposes of his treatment, drugs otherwise than for administration at a hospital or appliances shall, subject to paragraph (2), make and recover from the patient–
(a)in respect of an item of elastic hosiery a charge of £2.80, that is to say a charge of £5.60 per pair;
(b)in respect of an appliance specified in column (1) of Schedule 1, the charge specified in relation to it in column (2) of that Schedule;
(c)in respect of tights, a charge of £5.60;
(d)in respect of the supply of each other appliance and of each quantity of a drug, a charge of £2.80.
(2) No charge shall be made and recovered under this regulation from a patient who is exempt–
(a)under paragraph 1(1)(a) to (d) of Schedule 12 to the Act;
(b)under regulation 6 and who provides such evidence of his exemption as the health authority may reasonably require; or
(c)by reason of being entitled to remission under regulation 3 of the Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges Regulations.
(3) For the purposes of this regulation, where a drug ordered on a single prescription form is supplied by instalments, the charge of £2.80 payable for that drug shall be payable upon the supply of the first instalment.
(4) A health authority which makes and recovers a charge under this regulation shall, if so required by the patient, give him a receipt for the amount received on a form which shall contain forms of declaration in support of an application for repayment and information as to whom an application for repayment shall be made.
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