# National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990, Section 4A: Provision of certain services under NHS contracts.

Extent: E+W

(1) This section applies to any arrangement under which a Strategic Health Authority,a Primary Care Trust, a Health Authority or such other health service body as may be prescribed arrange for the provision to them—
(a) by a person on an ophthalmic list, . . .
(aa) by a contractor under a general ophthalmic services contract, or
(b) by a person on a pharmaceutical list,
of goods or services that they reasonably require for the purposes of functions which they are exercising under Part I of the principal Act other than under section 16CD of that Act.
(2) Any such arrangement is to be treated as an NHS contract for the purposes of section 4 (other than subsections (4) and (6)).
(3) In this section—
“general ophthalmic services contract” and “contractor” under such a contract have the meanings given by section 28WA of the principal Act;
“health service body” means a body which is a health service body for the purposes of section 4;
“ophthalmic list” means a list published in accordance with regulations made under—
(a)section 39(1)(a) of the principal Act;
(b)section 26(2)(a) of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978; or
(c)Article 62(2)(a) of the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972; and
“pharmaceutical list” means a list published in accordance with regulations made under—
(a)section 42(2)(a) of the principal Act;
(b)section 27(2) of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978; or
(c)Article 63(2A)(a) of the 1972 Order.
(4) In subsection (3), in paragraph (b) of the definition of “ophthalmic list” the reference to a list published in accordance with regulations made under paragraph (a) of section 26(2) of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 is a reference to the first part of the list (referred to in sub-paragraph (i) of that paragraph) which is published in accordance with regulations under that paragraph.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1990/19/section/4A (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-and-community-care-act-1990/section-4A
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