The Smoking, Health and Social Care (Scotland) Act 2005 (Consequential Modifications) (England, Wales and Northern Ireland) Order 2006

5.  In section 4A of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (provision of certain services under NHS contracts)(1)–

(a) in subsection (1)–

(i) in paragraph (a), omit “or”; and

(ii) after paragraph (b) add–

“; or

(c) by a person who has entered into a pharmaceutical care services contract under section 17Q of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978,”;

(b) in subsection (3), in the definition of “pharmaceutical list” omit paragraph (b); and

(c) after subsection (3) add–

“(4) In subsection (3), in paragraph (b) of the definition of “ophthalmic list” the reference to a list published in accordance with regulations made under paragraph (a) of section 26(2) of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 is a reference to the first part of the list (referred to in sub-paragraph (i) of that paragraph) which is published in accordance with regulations under that paragraph.”.

(1)

Section 4A was inserted by the 1997 Act, section 31(1). Subsection (1) was amended by the 2002 Act, Schedule 1, paragraph 41 and Schedule 2, paragraph 54. Subsection (3) was amended by the 2001 Act, Schedule 5, paragraph 8.