National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997 (c. 46)

Part II U.K. Primary Care

NHS contracts E+W+S

31 Provision of certain services under NHS contracts. E+W+S

F1 (1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(2) In the 1978 Act, after section 17, insert—

“ NHS contracts E+W+S

17AA Provision of certain services under NHS contracts.

(1) This section applies to any arrangement under which a Health Board or such other health service body as may be prescribed arrange for the provision to them—

(a) by a person on an ophthalmic list, or

(b) by a person on a pharmaceutical list,

of goods or services that they reasonably require for the purposes of functions which they are exercising under Part I of this Act.

(2) Any such arrangement is to be treated as an NHS contract for the purposes of section 17A (other than subsections (5) and (7)).

(3) In this section—

• “health service body” means a person or body which is a health service body for the purposes of section 17A;

• “ophthalmic list” means a list published in accordance with regulations made under—

  (a)

  section 26(2)(a) of this Act;

  (b)

  section 39(a) of the M1 National Health Service Act 1977; or

  (c)

  Article 62(2)(a) of the M2 Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972; and

• “pharmaceutical list” means a list published in accordance with regulations made under—

  (a)

  section 27(2) of this Act;

  (b)

  section 42(2)(a) of the National Health Service Act 1977; or

  (c)

  Article 63(2A)(a) of the 1972 Order.”

Textual Amendments

F1 S. 31(1) repealed (1.3.2007) by National Health Service (Consequential Provisions) Act 2006 (c. 43), s. 8(2), Sch. 4 (with Sch. 2 Pt. 1 Sch. 3 Pt. 1)

Marginal Citations

M1 1977 c. 49.

M2 S.I. 1972/1265 (N.I.14).