{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-medical-services-contracts-regulations-2004/regulation-24",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-medical-services-contracts-regulations-2004/regulation-24.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2004/291",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-medical-services-contracts-regulations-2004",
  "path": "regulation/24",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "24",
  "heading": "Fees and charges",
  "text": "(1) The contract must contain terms relating to fees and charges which have the same effect as those set out in paragraphs (2) to (4).\n(2) The contractor shall not, either itself or through any other person, demand or accept from any patient of its a fee or other remuneration, for its own or another’s benefit, for—\n(a) the provision of any treatment whether under the contract or otherwise; or\n(b) any prescription or repeatable prescription for any drug, medicine or appliance,\nexcept in the circumstances set out in Schedule 5.\n(3) Where a person applies to a contractor for the provision of essential services and claims to be on that contractor’s list of patients, but fails to produce his medical card on request and the contractor has reasonable doubts about that person’s claim, the contractor shall give any necessary treatment and shall be entitled to demand and accept a reasonable fee in accordance with paragraph 1(e) of Schedule 5, subject to the provision for repayment contained in paragraph (4).\n(4) Where a person from whom a contractor received a fee under paragraph 1(e) of Schedule 5 applies to the Primary Care Trust for a refund within 14 days of payment of the fee (or such longer period not exceeding a month as the Primary Care Trust may allow if it is satisfied that the failure to apply within 14 days was reasonable) and the Primary Care Trust is satisfied that the person was on the contractor’s list of patients when the treatment was given, the Primary Care Trust may recover the amount of the fee from the contractor, by deduction from its remuneration or otherwise, and shall pay that amount to the person who paid the fee.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "modified",
      "affecting": "uksi/2004/865",
      "affecting_title": "The General Medical Services and Personal Medical Services Transitional and Consequential Provisions Order 2004"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2013/363",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Primary Medical Services) (Miscellaneous Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2013"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/291/regulation/24",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:34:19.087921+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."
}