HEALTH AND PERSONAL SOCIAL SERVICES (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1972

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HEALTH AND PERSONAL SOCIAL SERVICES (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1972 - SECT 63



63.[(1) Every Health and Social Services Board shall, in accordance with
regulations, make arrangements in respect of its area for the supply to
persons who are in that area of

(a)proper and sufficient drugs and medicines and listed appliances which are
ordered for those persons by a medical practitioner in pursuance of his
functions

(i)in providing any service in pursuance of this Order; or

(ii)in the health services established in pursuance of section 1 of the
National Health Service Act 1977 or section 1 of the National Health Service
(Scotland) Act 1978; or

<(iii)in the armed forces of the Crown (excluding forces of a Commonwealth country and forces raised in a colony); and


(b)listed drugs and medicines which are ordered for those persons by a dental
practitioner in pursuance of such functions;

(2) Subject to paragraph (3), regulations may make provision for securing that
arrangements made under this Article will be such as to enable any person
receiving general medical services to obtain proper and sufficient drugs and
medicines and [listed] appliances, if ordered by the medical practitioner
rendering those services, from any persons with whom arrangements have been
made under this Article, and to enable any person receiving general dental
services to obtain [listed] drugs and medicines, if ordered by the dental
practitioner rendering those services, from any persons with whom such
arrangements have been made, and the regulations shall include provision

(a)for the preparation, publication and maintenance of lists of persons who
undertake to provide pharmaceutical services;

(b)for conferring a right, subject to the provisions of this Order relating to
the disqualification of persons providing services, on any person who wishes
to be included in any such list to be so included for the purpose of supplying
such drugs, medicines and appliances as that person is entitled by law to
sell; and

(c)for [the determination of] the remuneration of persons providing
pharmaceutical services.

(3) Before making any regulations under this Article, the Ministry shall
consult such organisations as appear to the Minister to be representative of
the pharmaceutical profession.

[(4) In this Article "listed" means included in a list for the time being
approved for the purposes of this Article by the Department.]

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HEALTH AND PERSONAL SOCIAL SERVICES (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1972 - SECT 63