The Health and Personal Social Services (General Medical Services Contracts) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004

1.  The contractor may demand or accept a fee or other remuneration –

(a) from any public body for services rendered for the purposes of that body’s statutory functions;

(b) from any body, employer or school for a routine medical examination of persons for whose welfare the body, employer or school is responsible, or an examination of such persons for the purpose of advising the body, employer or school of any administrative action they might take;

(c) for treatment which is not primary medical services or otherwise required to be provided under the contract and which is given:

(i) pursuant to the provisions of Article 31 of the Order (Accommodation and services for private patients), or

(ii) in a registered nursing home which is not providing services under that Order,

if, in either case, the person administering the treatment is serving on the staff of a hospital providing services under the Order as a specialist providing treatment of the kind the patient requires and if, within 7 days of giving the treatment, the contractor or the person providing the treatment supplies the Board, on a form provided by it for the purpose, with such information about the treatment as it may require;

(d) when he treats a patient under regulation 24(3), in which case he shall be entitled to demand and accept a reasonable fee (recoverable in certain circumstances under regulation 24(4)) for any treatment given, if he gives the patient a receipt;

(e) for attending and examining (but not otherwise treating) a patient –

(i) at his request at a police station in connection with possible criminal proceedings against him,

(ii) at the request of a commercial, educational or not-for-profit organisation for the purpose of creating a medical report or certificate,

(iii) for the purpose of creating a medical report required in connection with an actual or potential claim for compensation by the patient;

(f) for treatment consisting of an immunisation for which no remuneration is payable by the Board and which is requested in connection with travel abroad;

(g) for prescribing or providing drugs, medicines or appliances (including a collection of such drugs, medicines or appliances in the form of a travel kit) which a patient requires to have in his possession solely in anticipation of the onset of an ailment or occurrence of an injury while he is outside the United Kingdom but for which he is not requiring treatment when the medicine is prescribed;

(h) for a medical examination –

(i) to enable a decision to be made whether or not it is inadvisable on medical grounds for a person to wear a seat belt, or

(ii) for the purpose of creating a report –

(aa) relating to a road traffic accident or criminal assault, or

(bb) that offers an opinion as to whether a patient is fit to travel;

(i) for testing the sight of a person to whom paragraphs (a), (b) or (c) of Article 62(1) of the Order (arrangements for general ophthalmic services) applies (including by reason of regulations under Article 62(6) of that Order);

(j) where he is a contractor which is required by a Board under regulation 12 of the Pharmaceutical Regulations to provide drugs, medicines or appliances to a patient and provides for that patient, otherwise than under pharmaceutical services, any Scheduled drug;

(k) for prescribing or providing drugs or medicines for malaria chemoprophylaxis.