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 providing[F1 primary medical services] for the purpose of enabling them—N.I.
(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.