Health and Medicines Act 1988

16 Limits on reimbursement of expenses

(1) The following sub-paragraphs shall be substituted for subsection (1)(b)(ii) of section 97 of the National Health Service Act 1977 (means of meeting expenditure of health authorities out of public funds)—

“(ii) for any kind of expenditure attributable to reimbursement of expenses of persons providing services in pursuance of Part II of this Act for which he allots an amount to the Committee, an amount not exceeding the amount so allotted;

(iii) for any other expenditure attributable to remuneration of persons providing such services, sums equal to that expenditure;”.

(2) In subsection (1) of section 97B of that Act (financial duties of Family Practitioner Committees) for the words from “attributable”, in the second place where it occurs, to “services”, in the second place where it occurs, there shall be substituted the words “such as is mentioned in section 97(1)(b)(iii) above”.

(3) In section 85(2) of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 (restriction in relation to payments by Secretary of State in respect of expenditure attributable to performance by certain bodies of their functions), for the words “sums equal to the expenditure which he determines is attributable to the performance of those functions in that year” there shall be substituted the following paragraphs—

“(a) such amounts as he may allot for any kind of expenditure attributable to reimbursement of expenses of persons providing services in pursuance of that Part; and

(b) sums equal to any other expenditure attributable to remuneration of persons providing such services.”

(4) In section 85A of that Act (financial duties of certain bodies)—

(a) in subsection (1)(a), after “85(1)” there shall be inserted the words “and, as the case may be, section 85(2)(a)”; and

(b) in subsection (6)(c), after “85(1)” there shall be inserted the words “, or, as the case may be, section 85(2)(a)”.