The National Health Service (Personal Medical Services) (Scotland) Regulations 2001

Conditions in respect of financial assistance

15.—(1) A Health Board which makes payment of financial assistance to any person under these Regulations shall, on making that payment, require that person–

(a) to use the payment only for the preparatory work specified in their application and, to the extent that it is unused on the relevant date, to return it to the authority; and

(b) before the end of the period of four months beginning with the relevant date, to provide such information in writing to the Health Board about the uses to which the payment has been put as the Health Board may reasonably require,

and a person receiving such a payment shall comply with any conditions which the Health Board may impose in writing in connection with those requirements.

(2) A person to whom a payment of financial assistance is made who fails to comply with any of the conditions imposed by the Health Board shall, on demand by the Health Board repay the amount of the payment to the Health Board forthwith.

(3) In this regulation “the relevant date” means–

(a) in relation to preparing proposals under regulation 14(1)(a), the date on which those proposals are submitted to the Health Board; or

(b) in relation to preparation for arrangements under regulation 14(1)(b), the date on which the agreement is entered into.