{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pharmaceutical-services-regulations-2005/regulation-57",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pharmaceutical-services-regulations-2005/regulation-57.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/641",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pharmaceutical-services-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/57",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "57",
  "heading": "Claims and overpayments",
  "text": "(1) Any claim for fees, allowances or other remuneration by chemists or doctors shall be made in accordance with the provisions of the Drug Tariff or, as the case may be, in accordance with any arrangements for claiming them included in a determination made by the Primary Care Trust by virtue of regulation 56(2).\n(2) Where it considers that a payment has been made to a chemist or doctor in circumstances when it was not due, the Primary Care Trust, except to the extent that the Secretary of State, on the application of the Primary Care Trust, directs otherwise, shall draw the overpayment to the attention of the chemist or the doctor, and—\n(a) where the overpayment is admitted by him; or\n(b) where, in the case of a chemist, the overpayment is not so admitted but, the matter having been referred under regulation 5(1) of the National Health Service (Service Committees and Tribunal) Regulations 1992 for investigation, the Primary Care Trust, or the Secretary of State on appeal under regulation 9(1)(c) of those Regulations, decides that there has been an overpayment,\nthe amount overpaid shall, subject to any determination of the Secretary of State pursuant to regulation 11(1) of the National Health Service (Service Committees and Tribunal) Regulations 1992, be recoverable, either by deduction from the remuneration of the doctor or chemist or in some other manner.\n(3) Recovery of an overpayment under this regulation shall be without prejudice to the investigation of an alleged breach of the terms of service.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1992/664. Regulation 5 has been amended by S.I. 1996/703, 2002/2469 and 2004/865."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Regulation 11 has been amended by S.I. 1996/703, 2002/2469 and 2004/865."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2007/674",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) (Remuneration for Persons providing Pharmaceutical Services) (Amendment) Regulations 2007"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/641/regulation/57",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:04:38.912950+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."
}