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Regulation 2 Charging for Healthy Start vitamins

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(1)

Where—

(a)

Healthy Start vitamins are provided as part of the services or facilities mentioned in section 3(1)(d) f1 of the Act (provision of services or facilities for the care of pregnant women, women who are breastfeeding and young children); and

(b)

the person who receives those services is not entitled to benefit in the form of Healthy Start vitamins under the 2005 Regulations,

a body providing the services or facilities mentioned in sub-paragraph (b) may make a charge for Healthy Start vitamins.

(2)

That charge—

(a)

must comprise or include a sum of money equal to the cost price;

(b)

may include an additional sum in respect of a handling charge up to a maximum of 50 per cent of the cost price; and

(c)

must be rounded up to the nearest 5 pence.

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Footnotes

f1

Section 3(1)(d) was amended by the Health and Social Care Act 2012, section 13(2)(b).