Amendment of the National Health Service (Free Prescriptions and Charges for Drugs and Appliances) (Wales) Regulations 20072
1
The National Health Service (Free Prescriptions and Charges for Drugs and Appliances) (Wales) Regulations 20072 are amended as follows.
2
There is inserted after regulation 7 the following regulation:
7A
(Supply of drugs in the event of a pandemic)
1
No charges may be made or recovered under these Regulations in respect of a supply of drugs which is—
a
made—
i
while a disease is pandemic, or
ii
in anticipation of a disease being imminently pandemic,
and is a serious risk, or potentially a serious risk, to human health; and