Health Services and Public Health Act 1968

30 Certificates for exemption from prescription charges

(1) Regulations made under section 38(3) of the 1946 Act (which authorises regulations providing for the making and recovery of charges in respect of pharmaceutical services) and regulations made under section 1(1) of the [1952 c. 25.] National Health Service Act 1952 (which authorises regulations providing for the making and recovery of charges in respect of the supply, as part of hospital and specialist services under Part II of the 1946 Act, of drugs, medicines and appliances) may each provide for the grant, on payment of such sums as may be thereby prescribed, of certificates conferring on the persons to whom the certificates are granted exemption from charges otherwise exigible under the regulations in respect of drugs, medicines and appliances supplied during such period as may be so prescribed ; and different sums may be so prescribed in relation to different periods.

(2) This section shall have effect in Scotland as if, for the references therein to section 38(3) and Part II of the 1946 Act, there were substituted references respectively to section 40(3) and Part II of the 1947 Act.