{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-personal-social-services-northern-ireland-order-1972/article-98",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-personal-social-services-northern-ireland-order-1972/article-98.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1972/1265",
  "legislation_title": "Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-personal-social-services-northern-ireland-order-1972",
  "path": "article/98",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "98",
  "heading": "Services free of charge",
  "text": "(1) The services provided under this Order or the 1991 Order or the Health Services (Primary Care) (Northern Ireland) Order 1997or the 2009 Act shall be free of charge, except where any provision contained in or made under this Order or the Health Services (Primary Care) (Northern Ireland) Order 1997or the 2009 Act expressly provides for the making and recovery of charges.\n(2) The provisions of Schedule 15 shall have effect in relation to the making and recovery of certain charges and to the other matters mentioned in that Schedule.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1991 NI 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "SR 1999/11"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in art. 98(1) substituted (1.4.2009) by Health and Social Care (Reform) Act (Northern Ireland) 2009 (c. 1), s. 34(3), Sch. 6 para. 3(46); S.R. 2009/114, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "nia/2008/2",
      "affecting_title": "Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (Northern Ireland) 2008"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1972/1265/article/98",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:54:41.031010+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}