The National Health Service (Charges for Drugs and Appliances) Regulations 1989

Certificates of exemption—application and issue

7.—(1) A person who wishes to claim exemption under the provisions of regulation 6(1)(d), (e) or (f) shall apply for a certificate conferring exemption (in these Regulations referred to as an “exemption certificate”) to the Committee in the case of an exemption under sub-paragraph (d) or (e) on a form supplied for that purpose by the Committee and in the case of an exemption under sub-paragraph (f) to an office of the Department of Social Security on a form supplied for that purpose by the Secretary of State.

(2) A Committee, on being satisfied that an applicant is entitled to exemption under paragraph (1)(d), shall issue an exemption certificate which shall be valid–

(a) in the case of an expectant mother until the end of her pregnancy and, where she gives birth to a live child or a child registrable as still-born under the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953, until the end of the period of twelve months beginning with the expected date of confinement;

(b) in the case of a mother who has given birth to a child, until the end of the period of twelve months beginning with the date of birth of that child.

(3) A Committee, on being satisfied that an applicant, not being a person entitled to exemption under the provisions of regulation 6(1)(a), (b) or (c), is entitled to exemption under regulation 6(1)(e) shall issue to the applicant an exemption certificate which shall be valid for such period as it may determine.

(4) The Secretary of State, on being satisfied that an applicant is entitled to exemption under regulation 6(1)(f), shall issue to the applicant an exemption certificate which shall be valid for such period as he may determine.