The Health Services (Primary Care) (Northern Ireland) Order 1997

Provision of additional pharmaceutical services

27.  In the 1972 Order, after Article 63, insert—

“Arrangements for providing additional pharmaceutical services

63A.— (1) The Department may—

(a) give directions to a Health and Social Services Board requiring it to arrange for the provision to persons in its area of additional pharmaceutical services; or

(b) by giving directions to a Health and Social Services Board authorise it to arrange for such provision if it wishes to do so.

(2) Directions under this Article may make different provision in relation to different services specified in the directions.

(3) The Department must publish any directions under this Article in the Drug Tariff or in such other manner as it thinks appropriate.

(4) In this Article—

• “additional pharmaceutical services”, in relation to directions, means such services (of a kind that do not fall within Article 63) as may be specified in the directions; and

• “Drug Tariff” means the Drug Tariff published under regulation 40 of the [SR 1973 No. 421.] Health and Personal Social Services (General Medical and Pharmaceutical Services) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1973 or under any corresponding provision replacing, or otherwise derived from, that regulation.”.