^F1Part I Services and Administration

^F1 Functions of the Secretary of State

^F11 Secretary of State’s duty as to health service.

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^F12 Secretary of State’s general power as to services.

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^F13 Services generally.

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^F14 High security psychiatric services.

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^F15 Other services.

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^F1 Central Health Services Council and Medical Practices Committee

^F16 Central Health Services Council, and standing advisory committees.

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^F17 Medical Practices Committee.

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^F1 Local administration

^F18 Health Authorities and Strategic Health Authorities

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^F19 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

^F110 Family Practitioner Committees.

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^F111 Special Health Authorities.

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^F112 Supplementary provisions for ss. 8 and 11.

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^F113 Secretary of State’s directions.

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^F114 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

^F115 Duty of Health Authority in relation to family health services.

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^F116 Exercise of functions by Health Authorities and Special Health Authorities.

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^F116A Primary Care Trusts.

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^F1 16B Exercise of functions by Primary Care Trusts.

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^F116BA Local Health Boards

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^F116BB Local Health Boards: functions

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^F116BC Exercise of functions by Local Health Boards

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^F116C Advice for Health Authorities and Primary Care Trusts.

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^F1Functions of Primary Care Trusts and Local Health Boards

^F116CA Primary dental services

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^F116CB Dental public health

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^F116CC Primary medical services

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^F1 Directions as to distribution and exercise of functions

^F116D Secretary of State’s directions: distribution of functions.

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^F117 Secretary of State’s directions: exercise of functions.

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^F117A Strategic Health Authority’s directions: distribution of functions.

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^F117B Health Authority’s directions: exercise of functions.

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^F1 Directions and regulations: general

^F118 Directions and regulations under preceding provisions.

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^F1Primary Care Trusts: further functions

^F118A Provision of services etc.

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^F1Advisory committees for Wales and Community Health Councils

^F119 Advisory committees for Wales.

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^F119A Independent advocacy services

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^F120 Community Health Councils.

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^F120A Community Health Councils in Wales

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^F1 Co-operation and assistance

^F121 Local social services authorities.

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^F122 Co-operation between health authorities and local authorities.

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^F123 Voluntary organisations and other bodies.

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^F124 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

^F125 Supplies not readily obtainable.

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^F126 Supply of goods and services by Secretary of State.

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^F127 Conditions of supply under s. 26.

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^F128 Supply of goods and services by local authorities.

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^F128A Power to make payments towards expenditure on community services.

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^F128B Power of Secretary of State to make payments towards expenditure on community services in Wales.

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^F128BB Power of local authorities to make payments to NHS bodies.

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^F1Provision of personal medical or dental services

^F1 28C Personal medical or dental services.

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^F1 28D Persons with whom agreements may be made.

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^F128DA Lists of persons who may perform personal medical services or personal dental services

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^F128E Personal medical or dental services: regulations.

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^F128EE Delegation of Health Authority functions relating to section 28C arrangements.

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^F128F Right to choose medical practitioner.

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^F128G Right to choose dental practitioner.

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^F128H Immunisation.

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^F128I Use of accommodation.

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^F128J Local pharmaceutical services schemes

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^F1General dental services contracts

^F128K General dental services contracts: introductory

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^F128L Requirement to provide certain primary dental services

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^F128M Persons eligible to enter into GDS contracts

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^F128N GDS contracts: payments

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^F128O GDS contracts: other required terms

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^F128P GDS contracts: disputes and enforcement

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^F1General medical services contracts

^F128Q General medical services contracts: introductory

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^F128R Requirement to provide certain primary medical services

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^F128S Persons eligible to enter into GMS contracts

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^F128T GMS contracts: payments

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^F128U GMS contracts: prescription of drugs etc

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^F128V GMS contracts: other required terms

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^F128W GMS contracts: disputes and enforcement

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^F128X Persons performing primary medical and dental services

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^F128Y Assistance and support

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^F1Part II General Medical, General Dental, General Ophthalmic, and Pharmaceutical Services

^F1 General medical services

^F129 Arrangements and regulations for general medical services.

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^F129A Medical lists.

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^F129B Vacancies for medical practitioners.

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^F130 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

^F131 Requirement of suitable experience.

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^F132 Regulations as to s. 31.

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^F133 Distribution of general medical services.

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^F134 Regulations for Medical Practices Committee.

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^F1 General dental services

^F135 Arrangements for general dental services.

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^F136 Regulations as to s. 35.

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^F137 Dental Estimates Board.

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^F1 General ophthalmic services

^F138 Arrangements for general ophthalmic services.

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^F139 Regulations as to s. 38.

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^F140 Medical practitioners with qualifications prescribed under s. 38.

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^F1 Pharmaceutical services

^F141 Arrangements for pharmaceutical services

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^F141A Arrangements for providing additional pharmaceutical services.

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^F141B Terms and conditions etc.

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^F142 Regulations as to pharmaceutical services.

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^F142A Power to charge: England

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^F142B Power to charge: Wales

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^F143 Persons authorised to provide pharmaceutical services.

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^F143ZA Conditional inclusion in medical, dental, ophthalmic and pharmaceutical lists

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^F1 Indemnity cover

^F143C Indemnity cover.

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^F143D Supplementary lists

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^F1 Local representative committees

^F144 Recognition of Local Optical Committees and Local Pharmaceutical Committees.

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^F145 Functions of Local Optical Committees and Local Pharmaceutical Committees.

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^F145A Local Medical Committees

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^F145B Local Dental Committees

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^F1 Provisions as to disqualification of practitioners

^F146 Disqualification of practitioners.

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^F147 Removal of disqualification.

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^F148 Disqualification provisions in Scotland or Northern Ireland.

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^F149 Regulations as to ss. 46 to 48.

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^F149A Applications for interim suspension.

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^F149B Continuation of suspension pending appeal.

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^F149C Sections 49A and 49B: procedure etc.

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^F149D Suspension provisions in Scotland or Northern Ireland.

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^F149E Payments in consequence of suspension.

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^F149F Disqualification of practitioners

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^F149G Contingent removal

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^F149H Fraud and unsuitability cases: supplementary

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^F149I Suspension

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^F149J Suspension pending appeal

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^F149K Effect of suspension

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^F149L Review of decisions

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^F149M Appeals

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^F149N National disqualification

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^F149O Notification of decisions

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^F149P Withdrawal from lists

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^F149Q Regulations

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^F149R Corresponding provision in Scotland and Northern Ireland

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^F1 The Family Health Services Appeal Authority

^F149S The Family Health Services Appeal Authority

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^F1 Other provisions supplementary to Part II

^F150 Exercise of choice of practitioner in certain cases.

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^F151 University clinical teaching and research.

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^F152 Use of accommodation.

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^F153 Immunisation.

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^F154 Sale of medical practices.

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^F155 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

^F156 Inadequate services.

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Part III Other Powers of the Secretary of State as to theHealth Service

Control of maximum prices for medical supplies

^F1[^F257 Maximum price of medical supplies may be controlled.

(1)The Secretary of State may by order provide for controlling maximum prices to be charged for any medical supplies required for the purposes of this Act.

(2)The Secretary of State may by direction given with respect to any undertaking, or by order made with respect to any class or description of undertakings, being an undertaking or class or description of undertakings concerned with medical supplies required for the purposes of this Act, require persons carrying on the undertaking or undertakings of that class or description—

(a)to keep such books, accounts and records relating to the undertaking as may be prescribed by the direction or, as the case may be, by the order or a notice served under the order;

(b)to furnish at such times, in such manner and in such form as may be so prescribed such estimates, returns or information relating to the undertaking as may be so prescribed.

(3)The additional provisions set out in Schedule 11 to this Act have effect in relation to this section; and

• “ medical supplies ” in this section includes surgical, dental and optical materials and equipment; and

• “ undertaking ” in this section and that Schedule means any public utility undertaking or any undertaking by way of trade or business. ^F2]

Additional powers as to services and supplies; and the use of those services and supplies for private patients

^F358 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

^F459, 60. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

^F561 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

^F162 Restriction of powers under ss. 25, 58 and 61.

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Further provisions as to payments by patients for health service accommodation and services

^F163 Hospital accommodation on part payment.

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^F164 Expenses payable by remuneratively employed resident patients.

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^F165 Accommodation and services for private patients.

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^F666A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

^F767—71. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Use by practitioners of health service facilities for private Practice

^F172 Permission for use of facilities in private practice.

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^F8 Regulations as to certain charges

^F177 Charges for drugs, medicines or appliances, or pharmaceutical services.

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^F178 Charges for ... optical appliances.

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^F179 Dental charging

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^F179A Calculation of charges for dental appliances and treatment.

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^F180 Charges for designated facilities.

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^F181 Charges for more expensive supplies.

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^F182 Charges for repairs and replacements in certain cases.

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^F183 Sums otherwise payable to those providing services.

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^F183A Remission and repayment of charges and payment of travelling expenses.

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Inquiries, and default and emergency powers

^F984 Inquiries.

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^F184A Intervention orders

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^F184B Intervention orders: effect

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^F185 Default powers.

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^F186 Emergency powers.

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^F1Part IV Property and Finance

^F1 Land and other Property

^F187 Acquisition, use and maintenance of property.

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^F188 Transferred property free of trusts.

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^F189 Power of voluntary organisations to transfer property.

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^F1 Trusts

^F190 Gifts on trust.

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^F191 Private trusts for hospitals.

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^F192 Further transfers of trust property.

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^F193 Trust property previously held for general hospital purposes.

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^F194 Application of trust property: further provisions.

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^F195 Special trustees for a university or teaching hospital.

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^F196 Trusts: supplementary provisions.

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^F196A Power of health authorities, etc. to raise money, etc., by appeals, collections, etc.

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^F196B Trust-funds and trustees for Primary Care Trusts.

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^F1 Companies

^F196C Public-private partnerships

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^F1 Finance and Accounts

^F197 Means of meeting expenditure of Health Authorities and Special Health Authorities out of public funds.

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^F197A Financial duties of Health Authorities and Special Health Authorities.

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^F197AA Resource limits for Health Authorities and Special Health Authorities.

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^F197C Public funding of Primary Care Trusts.

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^F197D Financial duties of Primary Care Trusts.

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^F197E Resource limits for Primary Care Trusts.

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^F197F Public funding of Local Health Boards

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^F197G Financial duties of Local Health Boards

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^F197H Resource limits for Local Health Boards

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^F198 Accounts and audit.

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^F199 Regulation of financial arrangements.

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^F1100 Other Payments.

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^F1101 Secretary of State’s receipts.

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^F1 Miscellaneous provisions as to remuneration, allowances and superannuation

^F1102 Allowances and remuneration for members of certain bodies.

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^F1103 Special arrangement as to payment of remuneration.

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^F1104 Superannuation of officers of certain hospitals.

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^F1105 Payments for certain medical examinations.

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^F10 Part V

^F10106 Appointment and tenure of office of Commissioners.

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^F10107 Salaries and pensions of Commissioners.

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^F10108 Administrative provisions.

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^F10108A Appointment of acting Commissioners.

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^F10109 Bodies subject to investigation.

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^F10110 Investigations for England, and for Wales.

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^F10111 Who may complain.

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^F10112 Reply.

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^F10113 Commissioner’s discretion.

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^F10114 Procedure, and additional procedural provisions.

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^F10115 Matters subject to investigation.

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^F10116 Matters not subject to investigation.

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^F10117 Reference to Commissioner by relevant body.

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^F10118 Consultations between Commissioners and Local Commissioners.

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^F10119 Reports by Commissioners.

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^F10120 Interpretation of Part V.

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Part VI Miscellaneous and Supplementary

General provisions as to charges

^F1121 Charges in respect of non-residents.

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^F1122 Recovery of charges.

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^F1122A Recovery of other charges and payments.

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^F1122B Penalties.

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^F1122C Offences.

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Miscellaneous

^F1123 Persons displaced by health service development.

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^F1124 Special notices of births and deaths.

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^F1124A Provision of information by Registrar General.

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^F1125 Protection of members and officers of authorities.

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Supplementary

[^F1126 Orders and regulations, and directions. _cross-notes

(1)Any power to make orders [^F11 , rules^F11] or regulations conferred by this Act shall be exercisable by statutory instrument, and a statutory instrument made by virtue of this Act shall [^F12 , unless it is a PCT order [^F13 or an instrument to which subsection (1A) applies^F13] [^F14 or an instrument made by the National Assembly for Wales^F14] ,^F12] be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.

This subsection—

^F15(a). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(b)does not apply to [^F16 an order made under section 28EE(2) [^F17 or section 84A^F17] above, paragraph 20, 21 or 23 of Schedule 5A to this Act [^F18 , paragraph 19, 20 or 22 of Schedule 5B to this Act^F18] or to^F16] paragraph 10 of Schedule 11 to this Act.

[^F19 (1A)The Secretary of State may not make a statutory instrument containing the first regulations made under section 79(1) above (as substituted by the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003) unless a draft of the instrument has been laid before, and approved by resolution of, each House of Parliament.^F19]

(2)Any power to make regulations conferred on the Secretary of State by this Act [^F20 or Part I of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990^F20] is, if the Treasury so directs, exercisable by the Treasury and the Secretary of state acting jointly, except in the case of—

^F21(a). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(b)regulations made under section 77(1) above in respect of charges for the drugs, medicines or appliances referred to in paragraph (a) of that subsection, or under paragraphs 1(1) of Schedule 12 to this Act [^F20 or Part I of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990^F20] in respect of the remission or repayment of any charge payable under that section in the cases provided for in paragraph 1(1) of that Schedule;

(c)regulations made under paragraph 2(2) of that Schedule;

(d)regulations made under paragraph 2(6) of that Schedule.

(3)Where under [^F22 or by virtue of^F22] any provision of this Act [^F20 or Part I of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990^F20] —

(a)power to make an order may be exercisable, or

(b)directions may be given,

that provision includes power to vary or revoke the order or direction, as the case may be, by subsequent order or by subsequent directions.

[^F23 (3A)Directions given by the Secretary of State [^F24 or by a [^F25 Strategic Health Authority or^F25] Health Authority^F24] in pursuance of any provision of this Act or Part I of the ^M1National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 shall be given by an instrument in writing.

(3B)In relation to directions given in pursuance of [^F26 section 16BB or^F26] sections [^F27 16D to 17B^F27] above section 18 above applies in place of subsections (3) and (3A) above.^F23]

[^F28 (3C)Any person or body to whom directions are given in pursuance of any provision of this Act or Part I of the ^M2National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 shall comply with the directions.^F28]

(4)Any power conferred by this Act [^F20 or Part I of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990^F20] to make orders [^F29 , rules^F29] , regulations or schemes, and any power conferred by [^F30 section 16BB, 18^F30] [^F31 or 19A(7)^F31] above [^F32 , or by section 28E(3A), 28N, 28T [^F33 , 28U or 28WD^F33] above,^F32] [^F34 or by section 42A or 42B above,^F34] to give directions by an instrument in writing, may unless the contrary intention appears, be exercised—

(a)either in relation to all cases to which the power extends, or in relation to all those cases subject to specified exceptions, or in relation to any specified cases or classes of case, and

(b)so as to make, as respects the cases in relation to which it is exercised—

(i)the full provision to which the power extends or any less provision (whether by way of exception or otherwise),

(ii)the same provision for all cases in relation to which the power is exercised, or different provision for different cases or different classes of case, or different provision as respects the same case or class of case for different purposes of this Act [^F20 or Part I of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990^F20] or that section,

(iii)any such provision either unconditionally, or subject to any specified condition,

and includes power to make such [^F35 supplementary, incidental, consequential, transitory, transitional or saving^F35] provision in the orders [^F29 , rules^F29] , regulations, schemes or directions as the persons making or giving them consider appropriate.

This subsection does not only apply to ^F36... an order made under section 57 above (but without prejudice to paragraph 1(1) of Schedule 11 to this Act [^F20 or Part I of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990^F20] )

[^F37 (4A)Supplementary, incidental, consequential, transitory, transitional or saving provision made by virtue of subsection (4) above in connection with an order under section 20A above, or regulations under Schedule 7A to this Act, may include provision amending or repealing any provision made by or under an enactment.^F37]

[^F38 (5)Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (4) above, any power which may be exercised as mentioned in paragraphs (a) and (b) of that subsection [^F39 (other than a power to make rules)^F39] may make different provision for different areas.^F38,F1]]

^F1127 Supplementary regulatory powers.

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[^F1128 Interpretation and construction. _cross-notes

(1)In this Act [^F40 and Part I of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990^F40] , unless the contrary intention appears—

• ^F41 . . .

• ^F42 . . .

• ^F43 . . .

• ^F44 ...

• “ dental practitioner ” means a person registered in the dentists register under the ^M3 Dentists Act [^F45 1984 ^F45] ;

• [^F46 “ disabled persons ” means persons who are blind, deaf or dumb or who suffer from mental disorder of any description and other persons who are substantially and permanently handicapped by illness, injury or congenital deformity or such other disability as may be prescribed; ^F46]

• “ dispensing optician ” means a person who is registered in the register kept under section 2 of the ^M4 Opticians Act 1958 of dispensing opticians or a body corporate enrolled in the list kept under section 4 of that Act of such bodies carrying on business as dispensing opticians;

• “ equipment ” includes any machinery, apparatus or appliance, whether fixed or not, and any vehicle;

• [^F47 “ the FHSAA ” means the Family Health Services Appeal Authority; ^F47]

• [^F48 “ financial year ” means a period of 12 months ending with 31st March in any year; ^F48]

• “ functions ” included powers and duties;

• ^F49 . . .

• ^F41 . . .

• [^F50 “ general dental services contract ” has the meaning given by section 28K above; ^F50]

• [^F50 “ general medical services contract ” has the meaning given by section 28Q above; ^F50]

• “ the health service ” means the health service established in pursuance of [^F51 section 1 of the ^M5 National Health Service Act 1946 and continued under ^F51] section 1(1) above;

• [^F52 “ health service body ” has the same meaning as in section 4 of the ^M6 National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990; ^F52]

• “ health service hospital ” means a hospital vested in the Secretary of State [^F53 for the purposes of his functions ^F53] under this Act [^F54 or vested in [^F55 a Primary Care Trust ^F55] [^F56 , an NHS trust or an NHS foundation trust ^F56,F54]] ;

• [^F57 “ high security psychiatric services ” has the meaning given by section 4 above ^F57]

• ^F42 . . .

• “ hospital ” means—

  (a)

  any institution for the reception and treatment of persons suffering from illness,

  (b)

  any maternity home, and

  (c)

  any institution for the reception and treatment of persons during convalescence or persons requiring medical rehabilitation,

  and includes clinics, dispensaries and out-patient departments maintained in connection with any such home or institution, and hospital accommodation shall be construed accordingly;

• “ illness ” includes mental disorder within the meaning of [^F58 the ^M7 Mental Health Act 1983 ^F58] and any injury or disability requiring medical or dental treatment or nursing;

• “ local authority ” means a county council, ^F59 . . . a district council, [^F60 a county borough council, ^F60] a London borough council, and the Common Council of the City of London; ^F61 . . .

• “ local education authority ” has the same meaning as in the [^F62 the Education Act 1996 ^F62] ;

• [^F63 “ local pharmaceutical services ” means such services of a kind which may be provided under section 41 or by virtue of section 41A (except the provision of drugs, medicines or listed appliances by a medical practitioner or dental practitioner to a patient of his pursuant to arrangements made by virtue of section 43(1)) as are prescribed by regulations under section 28 of the Health and Social Care Act 2001 ;

• “ LPS arrangements ” means arrangements made under a pilot scheme established under section 28 of the Health and Social Care Act 2001 ; ^F63]

• “ local social services authority ” means the council of a non-metropolitan county, [^F64 of a county borough ^F64] or of a metropolitan district or London borough, or the Common Council of the City of London;

• “ medical ” includes surgical;

• ^F44 ...

• [^F65 “ medical practitioner ” means a registered medical practitioner within the meaning of Schedule 1 to the ^M8 Interpretation Act 1978 ^F65]

• “ medicine ” includes such chemical re-agents as are included in a list for the time being approved by the Secretary of State for the purposes of section 41 above;

• “ modifications ” includes additions, omissions and amendments;

• [^F66 “ NHS contract ” has the meaning assigned by section 4(1) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 ;

• “ National Health Service trust ” has the meaning assigned by section 5 of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 and “ NHS trust ” shall be construed accordingly ^F66]

• “ officer ” includes servant;

• [^F67 “ operational date ”, in relation to an NHS trust, shall be construed in accordance with paragraph 3(1)(e) of Schedule 2 to the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 ^F67]

• [[^F68,F69 “ optometrist ” ^F69] means a person registered in the register of optometrists maintained under section 7 of the Opticians Act 1989 [^F70 , or in the register of visiting optometrists from relevant European States maintained under section 8B(1)(a) of that Act , ^F70] or a body corporate registered in the register of bodies corporate maintained under section 9 of that Act carrying on business as an optometrist; ^F68]

• “ patient ” includes an expectant or nursing mother and a lying-in woman;

• ^F44 ...

• ^F44 ...

• [^F71 “ pharmaceutical services ” has the meaning assigned by section 41 of this Act ^F71]

• “ prescribed ” means prescribed by regulations made by the Secretary of State under this Act [^F72 or Part I of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 ; ^F72]

• [^F73 “ PCT order ” has the meaning given by section 16A above ^F73]

• [^F50 “ primary dental services ” means services which are primary dental services for the purposes of Part 1 (see section 16CA) ; ^F50]

• [^F74 “ primary functions ” shall be construed in accordance with section 3 of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 ^F74]

• [^F50 “ primary medical services ” means services which are primary medical services for the purposes of Part 1 (see section 16CC) . ^F50]

• “ property ” includes rights; ^F43 . . .

• “ registered pharmacist ” means a pharmacist registered in the register of pharmaceutical chemists;

• “ regulations ” means regulations made by the Secretary of State under this Act [^F75 or Part I of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 ^F75] ;

• [^F52 “ section 28C arrangements ” means arrangements made under section 28C ^F52] ;

• ^F76 . . .

• “ superannuation benefits ” means annual superannuation allowances, gratuities and periodical payments payable on retirement, death or incapacity, and similar benefits;

• [^F77 “ terms of service ” means the terms upon which by virtue of regulations a person undertakes to provide ^F44 ... general ophthalmic services or pharmaceutical services. ^F77]

• “ university ” includes a university college;

• [^F78 “ voluntary organisation ” means a body the activities of which are carried on otherwise than for profit, but does not include any public or local authority; ^F78]

[^F79 (1A)So far as is necessary or expedient in consequence of a direction under section 16D or 17A above providing for the exercise by a [^F80 Strategic Health Authority,^F80] Health Authority, Special Health Authority or Primary Care Trust of a function exercisable by another person, any reference in any enactment, instrument or other document to that other person is to be read as a reference to the [^F80 Strategic Health Authority,^F80] Health Authority, Special Health Authority or Primary Care Trust.^F79]

(2)References in this Act to the purposes of a hospital shall be construed as referring both to the general purposes of the hospital and to any specific purpose of the hospital.

(3)Any reference in this Act to any enactment is a reference to it as amended or applied by or under any other enactment including this Act.^F1]

^F1129 Transitional provisions and savings, consequential amendments, and repeals.

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^F1130 Short title, extent and commencement.

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SCHEDULES

^F1SCHEDULE 1 Additional Provisions as to the Medical and Dental Inspection and Treatment of Pupils ...

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^F1SCHEDULE 2 Additional Provisions as to Vehicles for Those Suffering Disability

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^F81SCHEDULE 3 Public Health Laboratory Service Board

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^F1SCHEDULE 4 Central Health Services Council and AdvisoryCommittees

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^F1SCHEDULE 5 HEALTH AUTHORITIES AND SPECIAL HEALTH AUTHORITIES

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^F1Schedule 5A Primary Care Trusts

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^F1SCHEDULE 5B Local Health Boards

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^F1SCHEDULE 6 Additional Provisions as to Advisory Committees for Wales

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^F82SCHEDULE 7 Additional Provisions as to Community Health Councils

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Section 20A

^F1SCHEDULE 7A Further Provisions about Councils under Section 20A

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^F1 SCHEDULE 8 Local Social Services Authorities

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^F1SCHEDULE 8A Local Pharmaceutical Services Schemes

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^F83SCHEDULE 9 Tribunal for Purposes of Section 46

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^F1SCHEDULE 9A The Family Health Services Appeal Authority

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^F1SCHEDULE 10 Additional Provisions as to Prohibition of Sale of Medical Practices

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^F85[^F1SCHEDULE 11 Additional Provisions as to the Control of Maximum Prices for Medical Supplies

Orders and directions

[^F86 1 (1) Any power of making orders under section 57 above includes power to provide for any incidental and supplementary provisions which the Secretary of State thinks it expedient for the purposes of the order to provide.

(2) An order under section 57 may make such provisions (including provision for requiring any person to furnish any information) as the Secretary of State thinks necessary or expedient for facilitating the introduction or operation of a scheme of control for which provision has been made, or for which, in his opinion, it will or may be found necessary or expedient that provision should be made, under that section.

(3) An order under section 57 may prohibit the doing of anything regulated by the order except under the authority of a licence granted by such authority or person as may be specified in the order, and may be made so as to apply either to persons or undertakings generally or to any particular person or undertaking or class of persons or undertakings, and so as to have effect either generally or in any particular area.

(4) [^F87 The ^M9 Interpretation Act 1978^F87] shall apply to the interpretation of any order made under section 57 as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament and for the purposes of [^F87 sections 16(1) and 17(2)(a)^F87] of that Act any such order shall be deemed to be an Act of Parliament.^F86]

Notices, authorisations and proof of documents

[^F88 2 (1) A notice to be served on any person for the purposes of section 57 above, or of any order or direction made or given under that section, shall be deemed to have been duly served on the person to whom it is directed if—

(a) it is delivered to him personally; or

(b) it is sent by registered post or the recorded delivery service addressed to him at his last or usual place of abode or place of business.

(2) Where under section 57 and this Schedule a person has power to authorise other persons to act thereunder, the power may be exercised so as to confer the authority either on particular persons or on a specified class of persons.

(3) Any permit, licence, permission or authorisation granted for the purposes of section 57 may be revoked at any time by the authority or person empowered to grant it.

(4) Every document purporting to be an instrument made or issued by the Secretary of State or other authority or person in pursuance of section 57 and this Schedule or any provisions so having effect and to be signed by or on behalf of the Secretary of State, or that authority or person, shall be received in evidence and shall until the contrary is proved, be deemed to be an instrument made or issued by the Secretary of State, or that authority or person.

(5) Prima facie evidence of any such instrument as is described in sub-paragraph (4) above may in any legal proceedings (including arbitrations) be given by the production of a document purporting to be certified to be a true copy of the instrument by or on behalf of the Secretary of State or other authority or person having power to make or issue the instrument.^F88]

Territorial extent

[^F89 3 So far as any provisions contained in or having effect under section 57 above and this Schedule impose prohibitions, restrictions or obligations on persons, those provisions apply to all persons in the United Kingdom and all persons on board any British ship or aircraft, not being an excepted ship or aircraft, and to all other persons, wherever they may be, who are ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom and who are citizens of the United Kingdom and Colonies or British protected persons.

In this paragraph—

• “ British aircraft ” means an aircraft registered in—

  (a)

  any part of Her Majesty’s dominions;

  (b)

  any country outside Her Majesty’s dominions in which for the time being Her Majesty has jurisdiction;

  (c)

  any country consisting partly of one or more colonies and partly of one or more such countries as are mentioned in paragraph(b) above;

• “ British protected person ” means the same as in [^F90 the ^M10 British Nationality Act 1981 ^F90] ;

• “ excepted ship or aircraft ” means a ship or aircraft registered in any country for the time being listed in [^F90 Schedule 3 to the ^M11 British Nationality Act 1981 ^F90] or in any territory administered by the government of any such country, not being a ship or aircraft for the time being placed at the disposal of, or chartered by or on behalf of, Her Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom. ^F89]

False documents and false statements

[^F91 4 (1) A person shall not, with intent to deceive—

(a) use any document issued for the purposes of section 57 above and this Schedule or of any order made under that section;

(b) have in his possession any document so closely resembling such a document as is described in paragraph (a) above as to be calculated to deceive;

(c) produce, furnish, send or otherwise make use of for purposes connected with that section and this Schedule or any order or direction made or given under that section, any book, account, estimate, return, declaration or other document which is false in a material particular.

(2) A person shall not, in furnishing any information for the purposes of section 57 and this Schedule or of any order made under that section, make a statement which he knows to be false in a material particular or recklessly make a statement which is false in a material particular.^F91]

Restrictions on disclosing information

[^F92 5 _C7 No person who obtains any information by virtue of section 57 above and this Schedule shall, otherwise than in connection with the execution of that section and this Schedule or of an order made under that section, disclose that information except for the purposes of any criminal proceedings, or of a report of any criminal proceedings, or with permission granted by or on behalf of a Minister of the Crown.^F92]

[^F93 5A. Paragraph 5 above does not apply if–

(a) the person who has obtained any such information as is referred to in that paragraph is, or is acting on behalf of a person who is, a public authority for the purposes of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, and

(b) the information is not held by the public authority on behalf of another person.^F93]

Offences by corporations

[^F94 6 Where an offence under this Schedule committed by a body corporate is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of, any director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate or any person who was purporting to act in any such capacity, he, as well as the body corporate, shall be guilty of that offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.

In this paragraph, the expression “ director ”, in relation to a body corporate established by or under any enactment for the purpose of carrying on under national ownership any industry or part of an industry or undertaking, being a body corporate whose affairs are managed by its members, means a member of that body corporate. ^F94]

Penalties

[^F95 7 (1) If any person contravenes or fails to comply with any order made under section 57 above, or any direction given or requirement imposed under that section, or contravenes or fails to comply with this Schedule (except for paragraph 8(3) or paragraph 9(4) below) he is, save as otherwise expressly provided, guilty of an offence.

(2) Subject to any special provisions contained in this Schedule, a person guilty of such an offence shall—

(a) on summary conviction, be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to a fine not exceeding £100, or to both; or

(b) on conviction on indictment, be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to a fine not exceeding £500, or to both.

(3) Where a person convicted on indictment of such an offence is a body corporate, no provision limiting the amount of the fine which may be imposed shall apply, and the body corporate shall be liable to a fine of such amount as the court thinks fit.^F95]

Production of documents

[^F96 8 (1) For the purposes—

(a) of securing compliance with any order made or direction given under section 57 above by or on behalf of the Secretary of State, or

(b) of verifying any estimates, returns or information furnished to the Secretary of State in connection with section 57 or any order made or direction given under that section,

an officer of the Secretary of State duly authorised in that behalf has power, on producing (if required to do so) evidence of his authority, to require any person carrying on an undertaking or employed in connection with an undertaking to produce to that officer forthwith any documents relating to the undertaking which that officer may reasonably require for the purpose set out above.

(2) The power conferred by this paragraph to require any person to produce documents includes power—

(a) if the documents are produced, to take copies of them or extracts from them and to require that person, or where that person is a body corporate, any other person who is a present or past officer of, or is employed by, the body corporate, to provide an explanation of any of them,

(b) if the documents are not produced, to require the person who was required to produce them to state, to the best of his knowledge and belief, where they are.

(3) If any requirement to produce documents or provide an explanation or make a statement which is imposed by virtue of this paragraph is not complied with, the person on whom the requirement was so imposed is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to a fine not exceeding [^F97 level 3 on the standard scale^F97] , or to both.

Where a person is charged with such an offence in respect of a requirement to produce any document, it shall be a defence to prove that they were not in his possession or under his control and that it was not reasonably practicable for him to comply with the requirements.^F96]

[^F98 9 (1) If a justice of the peace is satisfied, on information on oath laid on the Secretary of State’s behalf, that there are any reasonable grounds for suspecting that there are on any premises any documents of which production has been required by virtue of paragraph 8 above and which have not been produced in compliance with that requirement, he may issue a warrant under this paragraph.

A warrant so issued may authorise any constable, together with any other persons named in the warrant and any other constables—

(a) to enter the premises specified in the information (using such force as is reasonably necessary for the purpose); and

(b) to search the premises and take possession of any documents appearing to be such documents as are mentioned above, or to take in relation to any documents so appearing any other steps which may appear necessary for preserving them and preventing interference with them.

(2) Every warrant issued under this paragraph shall continue in force until the end of the period of one month after the date on which it is issued.

(3) Any documents of which possession is taken under this paragraph may be retained for a period of three months or, if within that period there are commenced any proceedings for an offence under section 57 above and this Schedule to which they are relevant, until the conclusion of those proceedings.

(4) Any person who obstructs the exercise of any right of entry or search conferred by virtue of a warrant under this paragraph, or who obstructs the exercise of any rights so conferred to take possession of any documents, is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to a fine not exceeding [^F99 level 3 on the standard scale^F99] , or to both.^F98]

Northern Ireland

[^F100 10 (1) So far as the Secretary of State’s power under section 57 above and this Schedule is exercisable in relation to Northern Ireland—

(a) he may, to such extent and subject to such restrictions as he thinks proper, by order delegate that power either to a Northern Ireland department or departments specified in that order or to the appropriate Northern Ireland department or departments; and

(b) where any power is so delegated to the appropriate Northern Ireland department or departments, that power shall be exercised by such Northern Ireland department or departments as the Secretary of State may by order specify.

(2) The power of the Secretary of State to make an order under sub-paragraph (1)(b) above shall be exercisable by statutory instrument; and where a power to make orders has been delegated in pursuance of sub-paragraph (1)—

(a) any order made in pursuance of that power shall be made by statutory instrument; and

(b) the ^M12 Statutory Instruments Act 1946 shall apply in like manner as if the order had been made by the Secretary of State.

(3) The references in section 57(1) and (2) above to this Act include any corresponding enactments of the Parliament of Northern Ireland or the Northern Ireland Assembly.^F100,F1]]

^F1SCHEDULE 12 Additional Provisions as to Regulations for the Makingand Recovery of Charges

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^F1SCHEDULE 12ZA Dental charging: exemptions

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^F1 SCHEDULE 12A Expenditure of Health Authorities and Primary Care Trusts

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^F1SCHEDULE 12B ACCOUNTS AND AUDIT

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^F101 SCHEDULE 13

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^F1SCHEDULE 14 Transitional Provisions and Savings

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Section 129.

^F1 SCHEDULE 15 Consequential Amendments

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Section 129.

^F1 Schedule 16 Repeals

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