The National Health Service (Free Prescriptions and Charges for Drugs and Appliances) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2009

Insertion of regulation 11A into the principal Regulations

7.—(1) After regulation 11 (entitlement cards) insert the following—

“Repayment of certain charges paid under the Charges Regulations 2000

11A.— (1) Where a charge has been paid under the Charges Regulations 2000, whether or not in accordance with these Regulations, by or on behalf of a person who is, at the time the charge was paid, a person who—

(a) is resident in Wales; and

(b) receives primary medical services under Part 4 of the 2006 Act from a provider who is contracted to provide such services with a Local Health Board,

an application for the repayment of that charge may be made in accordance with paragraph (2).

(2) An application for repayment made by or on behalf of a person described in paragraph (1) must—

(a) be made in such form and manner as the Welsh Ministers may determine;

(b) be made within 3 months from the date on which the charge was paid, or within such period as the Welsh Ministers may, for good cause, allow; and

(c) be accompanied by the receipt for the charge paid and a declaration that the person was, at the time the charge was paid, a person described in paragraph (1).”.