Health Services and Public Health Act 1968

24 Power of Executive Councils to supply goods and materials to persons providing certain services

(1) Arrangements made by an Executive Council as respects their area under any of the following provisions of the 1946 Act, namely, section 33 (general medical services), 38 (pharmaceutical services), 40 (general dental services) and 41 (general ophthalmic services) may include provision for the supply by the Council, with the consent of the Minister and on such terms as he and the Treasury may approve, to medical practitioners providing general medical services in the area, persons providing pharmaceutical services therein, dental practitioners providing general dental services therein and persons providing general ophthalmic services therein, as the case may be, of goods or materials prescribed by regulations made by the Minister, being goods or materials which it appears to him it is necessary or expedient for a person providing any such service as aforesaid to have for the purpose of providing that service.

(2) This section shall have effect in Scotland as if, for the references to sections 33, 38, 40 and 41 of the 1946 Act, there were substituted respectively references to sections 34, 40, 39 and 42 of the 1947 Act.