SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 9PROVISION FOR MAKING LOANS TO GENERAL MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS

1

The Ministry, with the approval of the Ministry of Finance, may by order empower the Health and Social Services Boards to make loans to practitioners providingF1 primary medical services for the purpose of enabling them—

a

to provide, or to acquire a share in, premises used or to be used, in whole or in part, for the provision of those services;

b

to alter, enlarge, improve or repair such premises;

c

to acquire any land required for the erection of, or in connection with the use of, such premises;

d

to acquire any equipment or furniture needed by them in the provision of those services;

e

to repay any loan raised by them for any such purpose.