Part 8Qualifications to practice
F1Chapter 1ANotices and penalties
106ANotices and penalties
1
The Welsh Ministers may by regulations provide that where a practitioner who provides pharmaceutical services or general ophthalmic services under arrangements with a Local Health Board breaches a term of those arrangements, the Local Health Board may—
a
by a notice require the practitioner to do, or not do, specified things or things of a specified description within a specified period, or
b
in prescribed circumstances or for a prescribed period, withhold all or part of a payment due to the practitioner under the arrangements.
2
Regulations under this section must include provision conferring on such persons as may be prescribed rights of appeal from decisions of Local Health Boards made by virtue of this section.
3
In this section—
“practitioner” means a person included in an ophthalmic list or a pharmaceutical list, and
“specified” means specified in a notice under paragraph (a) of subsection (1).
Pt. 8 Ch. 1A inserted (prosp.) by Health Act 2009 (c. 21), ss. 31(1), 40