Part 7Pharmaceutical services and local pharmaceutical services

Chapter 2Local pharmaceutical services: pilot schemes

98Funding of preparatory work

1

Provision may be made by regulations for Local Health Boards to make payments of financial assistance for preparatory work.

2

Preparatory work” means work which it is reasonable for a person to undertake—

a

in connection with preparing proposals for a pilot scheme, or

b

in preparing for the provision by him of any piloted services.

3

The regulations may, in particular, include provision—

a

prescribing the circumstances in which payments of financial assistance may be made,

b

imposing a limit on the amount of any payment of financial assistance which a Local Health Board may make in any prescribed period in respect of any one person or any one pilot scheme,

c

imposing a limit on the aggregate amount which a Local Health Board may pay by way of financial assistance in any one financial year,

d

requiring a person to whom assistance is given under this section to comply with such conditions as may be imposed in accordance with prescribed requirements, and

e

for repayment in the case of a failure to comply with any condition so imposed.