Payments to suspended NHS pharmacists and NHS appliance contractors
45.—(1) The Local Health Board must make payments to any NHS pharmacist or NHS appliance contractor who is suspended from a pharmaceutical list, in accordance with the Welsh Ministers' determination in relation to such payments.
(2) The Welsh Ministers must make the determination in accordance with paragraph (3) after consultation with such organisations as they may recognise as representing NHS pharmacists and NHS appliance contractors with whom arrangements for the provision of pharmaceutical services exist, and must publish it in the Drug Tariff.
(3) The determination may be amended from time to time by the Welsh Ministers after consultation with the organisations referred to in paragraph (2), and any amendments must also be published with the Drug Tariff.
(4) The Welsh Ministers' determination may include provision that payments in accordance with the determination are not to exceed a specified amount in any specified period.