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Statutory Instrument 1991 No. 579

The National Health Service (Charges for Drugs and Appliances) Amendment Regulations 1991

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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

1991 No. 579

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES

The National Health Service (Charges for Drugs and Appliances) Amendment Regulations 1991

Made10th March 1991
Laid before Parliament11th March 1991
Coming into force1st April 1991

    The Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of powers conferred by sections 77, 83A and 126(4) of, and paragraph 1 of Schedule 12 to, the National Health Service Act 1977[1] and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:—
    Citation, commencement and interpretation
        1.—(1)  These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (Charges for Drugs and Appliances) Amendment Regulations 1991 and shall come into force on1st April 1991.

        (2)  In these Regulations, "the principal Regulations" means the National Health Service (Charges for Drugs and Appliances) Regulations 1989[2].
    Amendment of the principal Regulations
        2.—(1)  In regulation 2(1) of the principal Regulations (interpretation), in the definition of "prescription form", in sub-paragraph (a), after the words "health authority's" there shall be inserted the words "or an NHS trust's"[3].

        (2)  In regulation 5 of the principal Regulations (supply of drugs and appliances by health authorities)—
       (a) in paragraph (1), after the words "health authority", there shall be inserted the words "or an NHS trust";
       (b) in paragraph (2)(b), after the words "health authority", there shall be inserted the words "or the NHS trust";
       (c) in paragraph (4), after the words "health authority", there shall be inserted the words "or an NHS trust".

        (3)  In regulation 6 of the principal Regulations (exemptions), in paragraph (5), for the words "or a health authority" and the words "or that health authority", there shall be substituted respectively the words ", a health authority or a NHS trust" and the words ", that health authority or that NHS trust".

        (4)  In relation 9 of the principal Regulations (repayment of charges), in paragraph (3)—
       (a) after the words "health authority", there shall be inserted the words "or the NHS trust";
       (b) in sub-paragraph (b), after the words "health authority", there shall be inserted the words "or the NHS trust".

        (5)  For each amount specified in column (3) of the Schedule to these Regulations, where it appears in the provision of the principal Regulations specified in relation to it in column (1) (the subject matter of which is indicated in column (2)), there shall be substituted the amount specified in relation to it in column (4) of that Schedule.


Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health.

Virginia Bottomley

Minister of State, Department of Health

10th March 1991




Notes:

[1] 1977 c. 49; see section 128(1) for the definition of "prescribed" and "regulations"; section 83A was inserted by the Social Security Act 1988 (c. 7), section 14(1) ("the 1988 Act"), and amended by the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19) ("the 1990 Act"), section 66(1) and Schedule 9, paragraph 18(5); section 126 was amended by the 1990 Act, section 65(2); Schedule 12, paragraph 1 was amended by the 1988 Act, Schedule 5.

[2] S.I. 1989/419; the relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1990/537.

[3] See, for definition of "an NHS trust", section 128(1) of the National Health Service Act 1977 (c. 49) as amended by section 26(2)(d) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19).

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