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

Provision of certain services under HSS contracts

30.  In the 1991 Order, after Article 8 (HSS contracts) insert—

“Provision of certain services under HSS contracts

8A.— (1) This Article applies to any arrangement under which a Health and Social Services Board or such other health services body as may be prescribed arranges for the provision to it—

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

(b) by a person on a pharmaceutical list,

of goods or services that it reasonably requires for the purposes of functions which it is exercising under Part II of the principal Order.

(2) Any such arrangement is to be treated as an HSS contract for the purposes of Article 8 (other than paragraphs (5) and (7)).

(3) In this Article—

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

  (a)

  Article 62(2)(a) of the principal Order;

  (b)

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

  (c)

  section 26(2)(a) of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978;

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

  (a)

  Article 63(2A)(a) of the principal Order;

  (b)

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

  (c)

  section 27(2) of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978.”.