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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Charges for Drugs and Appliances and Provision of Health Services to Persons not Ordinarily Resident (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009 and shall come into operation on 9th May 2009.
(2) In these Regulations—
(a) “the Charges for Drugs and Appliances Regulations” means the Charges for Drugs and Appliances Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997;
(b) “the Provision of Health Services to Persons not Ordinarily Resident Regulations” means the Provision of Health Services to Persons not Ordinarily Resident Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005.
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(1) The Charges for Drugs and Appliances Regulations are amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 5 (supply of drugs and appliances by the Regional Board or an HSC trust)—
(a) in paragraph (1), for “subject to paragraphs (2) and (2A)” substitute “subject to paragraphs (2), (2A) and (2B)”, and
(b) after paragraph (2A) insert the following paragraph—“
(2B) No charge shall be made and recovered under this regulation in respect of a supply which is—
(a) made—
(i) while a disease is, or
(ii) in anticipation of a disease being imminently,
pandemic and a serious risk, or potentially a serious risk, to human health; and
(b) in accordance with a protocol relating to that disease as provided for in Article 12F of the Prescription Only Medicines (Human Use) Order 1997 or Article 8 of the Medicines (Pharmacy and General Sale—Exemption) Order 1980.”.
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In Schedule 1 (Diseases for the treatment of which no charge is to be made) to the Provision of Health Services to Persons not Ordinarily Resident Regulations, after “mumps” insert the following entry—“Pandemic influenza (influenza caused by a new virus subtype that has an increased and sustained transmission during a global outbreak of influenza).”.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety on 8th May 2009.
Christine Jendoubi
A senior officer of the
Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Finance and Personnel insofar as the foregoing Regulations relate to the Provision of Health Services to Persons not Ordinarily Resident on 8th May 2009.
Mary McIvor
A senior officer of the
Department of Finance and Personnel
The Department of Finance and Personnel hereby approves the foregoing Regulations insofar as they relate to Charges for Drugs and Appliances.Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Finance and Personnel on 8th May 2009.
Mary McIvor
A senior officer of the
Department of Finance and Personnel
