Part II

Primary Care

NHS contracts

Provision of certain services under NHS contracts.
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In the 1978 Act, after section 17, insert—

NHS contracts

Provision of certain services under NHS contracts.
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This section applies to any arrangement under which a Health Board or such other health service body as may be prescribed arrange for the provision to them—
a
by a person on an ophthalmic list, or
b
by a person on a pharmaceutical list,
of goods or services that they reasonably require for the purposes of functions which they are exercising under Part I of this Act.
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Any such arrangement is to be treated as an NHS contract for the purposes of section 17A (other than subsections (5) and (7)).
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In this section—
- “health service body” means a person or body which is a health service body for the purposes of section 17A;
- “ophthalmic list” means a list published in accordance with regulations made under—
  1. section 26(2)(a) of this Act;
  2. section 39(a) of the National Health Service Act 1977; or
  3. Article 62(2)(a) of the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972; and
- “pharmaceutical list” means a list published in accordance with regulations made under—
  1. section 27(2) of this Act;
  2. section 42(2)(a) of the National Health Service Act 1977; or
  3. Article 63(2A)(a) of the 1972 Order.
1977 c. 49.
S.I. 1972/1265 (N.I.14).
S. 31(1) repealed (1.3.2007) by National Health Service (Consequential Provisions) Act 2006 (c. 43), s. 8(2), Sch. 4 (with Sch. 2 Pt. 1 Sch. 3 Pt. 1)