National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006 (c. 42)

Part 1 Promotion and provision of the health service in Wales

Provision of services otherwise than in Wales

6 Performance of functions outside Wales

(1) The Welsh Ministers may provide or secure the provision of anything mentioned in section 3(1) outside Wales.

(2) The Welsh Ministers' functions may be performed outside England and Wales, in so far as they relate to—

(a) holidays for patients,

(b) the transfer of patients to or from Scotland, Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man or the Channel Islands, or

(c) the return of patients who have received treatment in England and Wales, to countries or territories outside the British Islands (including for this purpose the Republic of Ireland).