Functions of the National Health Service Commissioning Board to be exercisable by the NHS Business Services Authority2

The NHS Business Services Authority4 is directed to exercise the functions of the National Health Service Commissioning Board that the Board—

a

may exercise by virtue of being prescribed as a qualifying person by regulation 3(1)(b) of the Social Security (Information-sharing) (NHS Payments and Remission of Charges etc.) (England) Regulations 20155 (qualifying persons for the purposes of information-sharing by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions), including its functions under regulation 9 of those Regulations (which relates to disclosure of personal data by qualifying persons to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions);

b

must exercise under regulation 7(7)(a) of the National Health Service (Charges for Drugs and Appliances) Regulations 20006 (which relates to the recovery of charges for the supply of drugs or appliances where a person’s claim for an exemption from such a charge is not substantiated).