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(1) There continues to be a body known as the Family Health Services Appeal Authority (“FHSAA”).
(2) The FHSAA has such functions as are conferred on it by this Act or by any other enactment.
(3) The Secretary of State may direct the FHSAA to exercise any of his functions relating to the determination of appeals to him which are specified in the directions.
(4) The Secretary of State may make available to the FHSAA any facilities provided by him or by an NHS trust or Special Health Authority for any service under this Act, and the services of persons employed by the Secretary of State or by an NHS trust or Special Health Authority.
(5) Schedule 13 makes further provision about the FHSAA.
(1) The Secretary of State may make such payments in respect of expenses incurred by the FHSAA as he may determine.
(2) The Secretary of State may pay to the members of the FHSAA—
(a) such remuneration, and
(b) such travelling and other allowances, including compensation for loss of remunerative time,
as he may determine.
(3) Payments under this section are subject to such conditions as to records, certificates, or otherwise as the Secretary of State may determine.
(1) Subsections (1) to (3) of section 81 (conditions of supply under section 80) apply in relation to the services of persons employed by a Special Health Authority and made available under section 169(4) as they apply in relation to the services of officers of Special Health Authorities to be made available under section 80 (supply of goods and services by the Secretary of State).
(2) For the purposes of section 169(4)—
(a) the Secretary of State may give directions to an NHS trust requiring it to make facilities or the services of persons available as mentioned there, but
(b) subsections (1) and (2) of section 81 apply in relation to the services of such persons as they apply in relation to the services of officers to be made available by virtue of section 80.
(1) Regulations may provide for the making and recovery in such manner as may be prescribed of such charges as may be prescribed in respect of—
(a) the supply under this Act (otherwise than under Chapter 1 of Part 7) of drugs, medicines or appliances (including the replacement and repair of those appliances), and
(b) such of the pharmaceutical services referred to in that Chapter as may be prescribed.
(2) Regulations under this section may in particular make provision in relation to the supply of contraceptive substances and appliances under paragraph 8 of Schedule 1.
(3) This section does not apply in relation to the provision of any relevant dental service (within the meaning of section 176).
(1) No charge may be made under regulations under section 172(1) in respect of—
(a) the supply of any drug, medicine or appliance for a patient who is resident in hospital,
(b) the supply of any drug or medicine for the treatment of sexually transmitted disease (otherwise than in the provision of primary medical services or in accordance with a pilot scheme or an LPS scheme),
(c) the supply of any appliance (otherwise than in pursuance of paragraph 8(d) of Schedule 1) for a person who is under 16 years of age or is under 19 years of age and receiving qualifying full-time education, or
(d) the replacement or repair of any appliance in consequence of a defect in the appliance as supplied.
(2) In subsection (1)(c) “qualifying full-time education” means full-time instruction at a recognised educational establishment or by other means accepted as comparable by the Secretary of State.
(3) For the purposes of subsection (2)—
(a) “recognised educational establishment” means an establishment recognised by the Secretary of State as being, or as comparable to, a school, college or university, and
(b) regulations may prescribe the circumstances in which a person must, or must not, be treated as receiving full-time instruction.
(1) Regulations under section 172(1) may provide for the grant, on payment of such sums as may be prescribed, of a pre-payment certificate.
(2) A pre-payment certificate is a certificate which confers on the person to whom it is granted exemption from charges otherwise chargeable under the regulations in respect of drugs, medicines and appliances supplied during such period as may be prescribed.
(3) Different sums may be prescribed in relation to different periods.
(1) Regulations may provide for the making and recovery, in such manner as may be prescribed, of such charges as the Secretary of State may determine in respect of the services mentioned in subsection (2).
(2) The services are such services as may be prescribed which are—
(a) provided under this Act, and
(b) provided in respect of such persons not ordinarily resident in Great Britain as may be prescribed.
(3) Regulations under this section may provide that the charges may be made only in such cases as may be determined in accordance with the regulations.
(4) The Secretary of State may calculate charges under this section on any basis that he considers to be the appropriate commercial basis.
(1) Regulations may provide for the making and recovery, in such manner as may be prescribed, of charges for relevant dental services.
(2) Regulations under subsection (1) may in particular include provision—
(a) specifying the amount, or maximum amount, of any charge (or aggregate charge in respect of the provision for two or more relevant dental services),
(b) for calculating the amount of any charge,
(c) for the variation of the amount, or maximum amount, of any charge in cases of a prescribed description,
(d) for any charge not to be payable in cases of a prescribed description,
(e) for power to direct that a charge is not payable in any particular case,
(f) for the repayment of any charge (including provision as to the persons by whom, and manner in which, repayments must be made).
(3) Regulations under subsection (1) may provide for sums which would otherwise be payable by a Primary Care Trust or Special Health Authority to persons providing relevant dental services to be reduced by the amount of the charges authorised by the regulations.
(4) In this section and section 177 “relevant dental services” means—
(a) dental treatment provided—
(i) under section 99(2),
(ii) under a general dental services contract, or
(iii) in accordance with section 107 arrangements, and
(b) the supply of dentures and other dental appliances under this Act.
(5) Any reference in this section or 177 to the supply of an appliance includes a reference to its repair, adjustment, refitting or replacement and, in the case of dentures, to their being relined or having additions made to them.
(1) No charge may be made under regulations under section 176(1) in respect of a relevant dental service provided for any person who at the prescribed time—
(a) was under 18,
(b) was under 19 and receiving qualifying full-time education,
(c) was pregnant, or
(d) had given birth to a child within the previous 12 months.
(2) No charge may be made under regulations under section 176(1) in respect of—
(a) the repair or replacement of any appliance,
(b) any appliance supplied to a patient who is resident in a hospital,
(c) the arrest of bleeding.
(3) Subsections (1) and (2)(a) do not apply in relation to—
(a) the repair or replacement of any appliance of a prescribed description,
(b) the repair or replacement of any appliance where it is determined in the prescribed manner—
(i) in any case, that the repair or replacement was necessitated by an act or omission of the person supplied, or
(ii) in a case where the person supplied was under the age of 16, that the repair or replacement was necessitated by an act or omission, occurring while that person was under that age, of a person having charge of him.
(4) Subsection (2)(b) does not apply where an appliance is supplied—
(a) under section 99(2),
(b) under a general dental services contract, or
(c) in accordance with section 107 arrangements.
(5) Regulations may provide, with respect to any exemption under this section, that it must be a condition of the exemption that—
(a) a declaration of the prescribed kind is made in the prescribed form and manner,
(b) a certificate or other evidence of the prescribed kind is supplied in the prescribed form and manner.
(6) In subsection (1)(b) “qualifying full-time education” means full-time instruction at a recognised educational establishment or by other means accepted as comparable by the Secretary of State.
(7) For the purposes of subsection (6)—
(a) “recognised educational establishment” means an establishment recognised by the Secretary of State as being, or as comparable to, a school, college or university, and
(b) regulations may prescribe the circumstances in which a person must, or must not, be treated as receiving full-time instruction.
(8) In subsection (1)(d), “child” includes a still-born child (within the meaning of the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953 (c. 20).
(1) Regulations may provide for the making and recovery, in such manner as may be prescribed, of charges for—
(a) local pharmaceutical services provided under pilot schemes, or
(b) local pharmaceutical services provided under LPS schemes.
(2) The regulations may in particular provide for—
(a) exemptions from charges,
(b) the liability to pay charges to be disregarded in prescribed circumstances or for prescribed purposes,
(c) section 192 (recovery of certain charges and payments) to apply also in relation to local pharmaceutical services (with or without modification),
(d) section 193 (penalties) to apply also in relation to local pharmaceutical services (with or without modification).
(3) The regulations must secure that the amount charged for any service is the same as the amount that would be charged for that service if it were provided under Chapter 1 of Part 7.
(1) Regulations may provide for the making and recovery, in such manner as may be prescribed, of charges in respect of the supply under this Act of optical appliances.
(2) The amount of the charges may be determined—
(a) in regulations, or
(b) by or in accordance with directions given by the Secretary of State.
(3) Regulations or directions may—
(a) vary the amount or maximum amount of charges, or
(b) provide that the charges are not payable.
(4) A reference to supply includes a reference to replacement.
(5) In this Act “optical appliances” means glasses and contact lenses, but regulations may provide for a different definition of optical appliances to have effect for the purposes of this Act.
(1) The Secretary of State must provide by regulations for payments to be made by him or a relevant body to meet, or to contribute towards, the cost incurred (whether by way of charge under this Act or otherwise) for the supply of optical appliances for which—
(a) a prescription has been given for a person mentioned in subsection (2) in consequence of a sight test under this Act, or
(b) a prescription has been given for a person mentioned in subsection (2) in consequence of a sight test otherwise than under this Act which took place in prescribed circumstances.
(2) The persons are—
(a) a child,
(b) a person whose resources fall to be treated under the regulations as being less than or equal to his requirements,
(c) any person falling within section 115(2)(d), or
(d) a person of such other description as may be prescribed.
(3) The Secretary of State may by regulations—
(a) provide for himself or such relevant body as may be prescribed to contribute to the cost of a sight test which he or the prescribed body accepts as having been incurred by a person whose resources fall to be treated under the regulations as exceeding his requirements but only by an amount calculated under the regulations, and
(b) provide for payments to be made by him or by such relevant body as may be prescribed to meet, or to contribute towards, any cost accepted by him or by the prescribed body as having been incurred (whether by way of charge under this Act or otherwise) for the replacement or repair in prescribed circumstances of optical appliances for which a prescription was given in consequence of a sight test of a person of a prescribed description.
(4) Regulations under this section may direct how a person’s resources and requirements must be calculated and may, in particular, direct that they must be calculated—
(a) by a method set out in the regulations,
(b) by a method described by reference to a method of calculating or estimating income or capital specified in an enactment other than this section or in an instrument made under an Act of Parliament or by reference to such a method but subject to prescribed modifications,
(c) by reference to an amount applicable for the purposes of a payment under an Act of Parliament or an instrument made under an Act of Parliament, or
(d) by reference to the person’s being or having been entitled to payment under an Act of Parliament or an instrument made under an Act of Parliament.
(5) Descriptions of persons may be prescribed for the purposes of this section by reference to any criterion and, in particular, by reference to any of the following criteria—
(a) their age,
(b) the fact that a prescribed person or a prescribed body accepts them as suffering from a prescribed medical condition,
(c) the fact that a prescribed person or a prescribed body accepts that a prescribed medical condition from which they suffer arose in prescribed circumstances,
(d) their receipt of benefit in money or in kind under any enactment or their entitlement to receive any such benefit,
(e) the receipt of any such benefit by other persons satisfying prescribed conditions or the entitlement of other persons satisfying prescribed conditions to receive such benefits, and
(f) the relationship, as calculated in accordance with the regulations by a prescribed person, between their resources and their requirements.
(6) Regulations under this section which refer to an Act of Parliament or an instrument made under an Act of Parliament may direct that the reference must be construed as a reference to that Act or instrument—
(a) as it has effect at the time when the regulations are made, or
(b) both as it has effect at that time and as amended subsequently.
(7) In subsection (2)(a) “child” means—
(a) a person who is under the age of 16 years, or
(b) a person who is under the age of 19 years and receiving qualifying full-time education.
(8) In subsection (7)(b) “qualifying full-time education” means full-time instruction at a recognised educational establishment or by other means accepted as comparable by the Secretary of State.
(9) For the purposes of subsection (8)—
(a) “recognised educational establishment” means an establishment recognised by the Secretary of State as being, or as comparable to, a school, college or university, and
(b) regulations may prescribe the circumstances in which a person must, or must not, be treated as receiving full-time instruction.
(10) If regulations under this section provide for payments to be made by a relevant body, the Secretary of State must pay to the body, in respect of each financial year, the sum attributable to the body’s disbursements under the regulations.
(11) Sums falling to be paid in pursuance of regulations under this section are payable subject to such conditions as to records, certificates or otherwise as the Secretary of State may determine.
(12) “Relevant body” means a Strategic Health Authority, a Primary Care Trust or a Special Health Authority.
(1) Regulations under section 180 providing for payments for meeting or contributing towards the cost incurred for the supply of optical appliances or their replacement or repair may also provide as follows.
(2) They may make provision for such payments not to be made to any person falling within a prescribed description.
(3) They may make provision for the Secretary of State to give notice as mentioned in subsection (4) to a person to whom such payments have been made (whether by the Secretary of State or by a relevant body).
(4) Such a notice is notice that no further such payments in respect of the supply, replacement or repair of optical appliances at a particular location or in a particular area, in either case specified in the notice, will be made to him after a date specified in the notice.
(5) If such a notice is given, no further payments as mentioned in subsection (4) may be made to him after the date specified in the notice, unless the notice is cancelled by the Secretary of State.
(6) The regulations may make provision conferring on the Secretary of State the right, if he has given a notice by virtue of subsection (3), to apply to the FHSAA for a stop order.
(7) A stop order is an order that no further such payments may be made (whether by the Secretary of State or by any relevant body) to the person in question in respect of the supply, replacement or repair of optical appliances, wherever the supply, replacement or repair occurred.
(8) If the regulations make the provision mentioned in subsection (3), they must also make provision conferring prescribed rights of appeal to the FHSAA upon the person to whom the notice was given.
(9) “Relevant body” means a Strategic Health Authority, a Primary Care Trust or a Special Health Authority.
Regulations may provide in relation to prescribed descriptions of person for the remission or repayment of the whole or any part of any charges which would otherwise be payable by virtue of section 172, 176 or 179.
Regulations may provide in relation to prescribed descriptions of persons—
(a) for the payment by the Secretary of State, a Primary Care Trust, an NHS trust or an NHS foundation trust, in such cases as may be prescribed, of travelling expenses (including the travelling expenses of a companion) incurred or to be incurred for the purpose of their obtaining any services provided under this Act,
(b) for the reimbursement by a Primary Care Trust to an NHS trust or an NHS foundation trust and, in such cases as may be prescribed, to another Primary Care Trust, of such payments,
(c) for the reimbursement by a Primary Care Trust to an NHS trust and, in such cases as may be prescribed, to a Local Health Board, of payments made by virtue of section 131(a) of the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006 (c. 42).
(1) Descriptions of persons may be prescribed for the purposes of section 182 or 183 by reference to any criterion and, in particular, by reference to any of the following criteria—
(a) their age,
(b) the fact that a prescribed person or a prescribed body accepts them as suffering from a prescribed medical condition,
(c) the fact that a prescribed person or a prescribed body accepts that a prescribed medical condition from which they suffer arose in prescribed circumstances,
(d) their receipt of benefit in money or in kind under any enactment or their entitlement to receive any such benefit,
(e) the receipt of any such benefit by other persons satisfying prescribed conditions or the entitlement of other persons satisfying prescribed conditions to receive such benefits, and
(f) the relationship, as calculated in accordance with the regulations by a prescribed person, between their resources and their requirements.
(2) Regulations under section 182 or 183 may direct how a person’s resources and requirements must be calculated and may, in particular, direct that they must be calculated—
(a) by a method set out in the regulations,
(b) by a method described by reference to a method of calculating or estimating income or capital specified in an enactment other than this section or in an instrument made under an Act of Parliament or by reference to such a method but subject to prescribed modifications,
(c) by reference to an amount applicable for the purposes of a payment under an Act of Parliament or an instrument made under an Act of Parliament, or
(d) by reference to the person’s being or having been entitled to payment under an Act of Parliament or an instrument made under an Act of Parliament.
(3) Regulations under section 182 or 183 which refer to an Act of Parliament or an instrument made under an Act of Parliament may direct that the reference must be construed as a reference to that Act or instrument—
(a) as it has effect at the time when the regulations are made, or
(b) both as it has effect at that time and as amended subsequently.
(1) Regulations may provide for the making and recovery of such charges falling within subsection (2) as may be prescribed.
(2) The charges are charges by the Secretary of State, a Primary Care Trust, an NHS trust or an NHS foundation trust—
(a) in respect of the supply of any appliance or vehicle which is, at the request of the person supplied, of a more expensive type than the prescribed type, or
(b) in respect of the repair or replacement of any such appliance, or the replacement of any such vehicle, or the taking of any such action in relation to the vehicle as is mentioned in paragraph 10(2) of Schedule 1.
(1) Regulations may provide for the making and recovery of such charges falling within subsection (2) as may be prescribed.
(2) The charges are charges by the Secretary of State, a Primary Care Trust, an NHS trust or an NHS foundation trust, in respect of the repair or replacement of any appliance or vehicle, where it is determined in the prescribed manner—
(a) in any case, that the repair or replacement was necessitated by an act or omission of the person supplied, or
(b) in a case where the person supplied was under the age of 16, that the repair or replacement was necessitated by an act or omission, occurring while that person was under that age, of a person having charge of him.
Regulations may provide for the making and recovery of charges in respect of services or facilities designated by the regulations as services or facilities provided in pursuance of section 3(1)(d) or (e).
(1) Subsection (2) applies to regulations under—
(a) section 172 (charges for drugs, medicines or appliances, or pharmaceutical service),
(b) section 179 (charges for optical appliances),
(c) section 185 (charges for more expensive supplies), or
(d) section 186 (charges for repairs and replacements in certain cases),
which provide for the making and recovery of charges in respect of any services.
(2) The regulations may provide for the sums which would otherwise be payable by a Primary Care Trust or Special Health Authority to the persons by whom the services are provided, to be reduced by the amount of the charges authorised by the regulations in respect of the services.
(1) The Secretary of State—
(a) may authorise accommodation to be made available for patients to such extent as he may determine, and
(b) may recover such charges as he may determine in respect of such accommodation and calculate them on any basis that he considers to be the appropriate commercial basis.
(2) Accommodation means—
(a) accommodation in single rooms or small wards which is not needed by any patient on medical grounds,
(b) accommodation at any health service hospital or group of hospitals, or a hospital in which patients are treated under arrangements made by virtue of section 12, or at the health service hospitals in a particular area or a hospital in which patients are so treated.
(3) References in subsection (2) to a health service hospital include references to such a hospital within the meaning of section 206 of the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006 (c. 42), but do not include references to a hospital vested in an NHS trust or an NHS foundation trust.
(1) The Secretary of State may require any person—
(a) who is a resident patient for whom the Secretary of State provides services under this Act, and
(b) who is absent during the day from the hospital where he is a patient for the purpose of engaging in remunerative employment,
to pay such part of the cost of his maintenance in the hospital and any incidental cost as may seem reasonable to the Secretary of State having regard to the amount of that person’s remuneration.
(2) The Secretary of State may recover the amount required under subsection (1).
(1) All charges recoverable under this Act by—
(a) the Secretary of State,
(b) a local social services authority, or
(c) any body established under this Act,
may be recovered summarily as a civil debt (but this does not affect any other method of recovery).
(2) If any person, for the purpose of evading the payment of any charge under this Act, or of reducing the amount of any such charge—
(a) knowingly makes any false statement or false representation, or
(b) produces or furnishes, or causes or knowingly allows to be produced or furnished, any document or information which he knows to be false in a material particular,
the charge or the balance of the charge, may be recovered from him by the person by whom the cost of the service in question was defrayed.
National Health Service Act 2006