Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972

Functions of[F1 Local Dental Committees, Local Optical Committees and Local Pharmaceutical Committees]N.I.

55A.—(1) Regulations may require [F2the Department] —

(a)in the exercise of its functions under this Part to consult committees recognised by it under Article 55;

(b)in the exercise of any of its functions which relate to arrangements under Article 15B to consult committees recognised by it under[F1 Article 55(2)(c)],

on such occasions and to such extent as may be prescribed.

(2) The power conferred by paragraph (1) is without prejudice to [F3any other duty on the Department] to consult any committee recognised under Article 55.

(3) Committees recognised under Article 55 shall exercise such other functions as may be prescribed.

(4) A committee recognised for an area under[F1 paragraph (2)(b) or (c)] of Article 55 shall, in respect of each year, determine the amount of its administrative expenses for that year attributable—

Sub-paras. (a) and (b) rep. by 2004 NI 2

(c)in the case of a committee recognised under paragraph (2)(b) or (c)(ii) of that Article, to the deputy dental practitioners for the area;

(d)in the case of a committee recognised under paragraph (2)(c) of that Article, to the Article 15B dental practitioners for the area.

(5) [F4The Department] may, on the request of any committee recognised under Article 55 for [F5an area], allot to that committee such sums for defraying the committee's administrative expenses as may be determined by [F6the Department] .

(6) Any sums so allotted shall be out of the moneys available to [F7the Department] for the remuneration of persons of whom the committee so recognised is representative and who provideF1. . . , general dental services, general ophthalmic services or pharmaceutical services, as the case may be, under this Part.

(7) The amount of any such sums shall be deducted from the remuneration of those persons in such manner as may be determined by [F8the Department] .

(8) Where a committee has made a determination under paragraph (4), it shall apportion the amount so determined among theF1. . . , deputy dental practitioners or Article 15B dental practitioners, as the case may be, for the area and each such practitioner shall pay in accordance with the committee's directions the amount so apportioned to him.

(9) References in this Article to administrative expenses of a committee include references to travelling and subsistence allowances payable to its members; but the reference in paragraph (5) to a committee's administrative expenses does not include so much of the committee's administrative expenses as are determined under paragraph (4) to be attributable to any practitioners mentioned in that paragraph.