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6A.—(1) Where drugs are supplied to a patient in accordance with a Patient Group Direction[F2, including during the out of hours period,] the person supplying the drugs shall, subject to paragraphs (3)[F3, (3A)] and (4), make and recover from the patient, in respect of the supply of each quantity, a charge of [F4£7.10].
(2) Where a charge is paid under paragraph (1), the person making the payment shall on doing so sign a declaration in writing that the relevant charge has been paid.
(3) No charge shall be made and recovered under this regulation from a patient who is exempt—
(a)under [F5paragraph 1(1)(b) to (d)] of Schedule 12 to the Act,
(b)under regulation 7, or
(c)by reason of being entitled to remission under [F6regulation 5 of the Travel Expenses and Remission of Charges Regulations],
and who, in the case described in paragraph 1(1)(c) of Schedule 12 of the Act and in the cases described in sub-paragraphs (b) and (c), completes a declaration of entitlement to such exemption or remission and provides such evidence of entitlement as the person supplying the drug may reasonably require.
[F7(3A) No charge shall be made and recovered under this regulation from a patient who is accepted by the person supplying the drug as—
(a)suffering from tuberculosis, in respect of any drug supplied to that patient for the treatment of tuberculosis; or
(b)being subject to a community treatment order, in respect of any drug supplied to that patient for the treatment of mental disorder.]
(4) No charge shall be made and recovered under this regulation where the drug is supplied for personal administration by the person making the supply in accordance with the Patient Group Direction.
(5) A person making and recovering a charge under this regulation shall, if so required by a patient, give him a receipt for the amount received on [F8the form provided for the purpose, which form] shall contain forms of declaration in support of an application for repayment and information as to whom an application for repayment shall be made.
(6) For the purposes of this regulation the reference to the supply of a drug in accordance with a Patient Group Direction is a reference to the supply of a drug for that purpose as provided for in the Medicines (Pharmacy and General Sale—Exemption) Order 1980 or in the Prescription Only Medicines (Human Use) Order 1997.]
Textual Amendments
F1Reg. 6A inserted (11.12.2000) by The National Health Service (Charges for Drugs and Appliances) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/3189), regs. 1(1), 3
F2Words in reg. 6A(1) inserted (1.4.2005) by The National Health Service (Charges for Drugs and Appliances) and (Travel Expenses and Remission of Charges) Amendment Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/578), regs. 1(1), 10(a)
F3Word in reg. 6A(1) inserted (1.9.2007) by The National Health Service (Charges for Drugs and Appliances) and (Travel Expenses and Remission of Charges) Amendment Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/1975), regs. 1(1), 3(2)
F4Sum in reg. 6A(1) substituted (1.4.2008) by The National Health Service (Charges for Drugs and Appliances) and (Travel Expenses and Remission of Charges) Amendment Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/571), regs. 1(1), 2(2)(f)
F5Words in reg. 6A(3)(a) substituted (1.4.2005) by The National Health Service (Charges for Drugs and Appliances) and (Travel Expenses and Remission of Charges) Amendment Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/578), regs. 1(1), 10(b)
F6Words in reg. 6A(3)(c) substituted (1.4.2005) by The National Health Service (Charges for Drugs and Appliances) and (Travel Expenses and Remission of Charges) Amendment Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/578), regs. 1(1), 10(c)
F7Reg. 6A(3A) substituted (3.11.2008) by The National Health Service (Charges for Drugs and Appliances) Amendment Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/2593), regs. 1, 2(4)
F8Words in reg. 6A(5) substituted (1.4.2006) by The National Health Service (Charges for Drugs and Appliances) and (Travel Expenses and Remission of Charges) Amendment Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/675), regs. 1(1), 4(c) (with reg. 5)
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