The National Health Service (Charges for Drugs and Appliances) (Scotland) Regulations 2001

Supply of drugs and appliances to out-patients

5.—(1) A Board or an NHS trust which at a hospital supplies to an out-patient drugs (otherwise than for administration in the hospital) or appliances for the purposes of the patient’s treatment, shall make and recover from the out-patient–

(a) in respect of the supply of an appliance specified in column 1 of Schedule 1 or of Schedule 2 a charge in the sum specified in column 2 of Schedule 1 or of Schedule 2 in respect of that appliance; and

(b) in respect of the supply of each quantity of a drug and each appliance not so specified, a charge in the sum specified in regulation 3(1)(b).

(2) For the purposes of this regulation only one charge in respect of each quantity of a drug supplied by a hospital or by a chemist against an order on one prescription form shall be payable notwithstanding that such quantity is by order of the prescriber to be supplied on more than one day during a period of 14 days.

(3) A Board or an NHS trust which makes and receives a charge under this regulation shall, if so required by the patient, give the patient a receipt for the amount paid on a form which contains forms of declaration in support of an application for repayment.