# The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) Regulations 2005, Paragraph 5: Preliminary matters before providing appliances


(1) If the person presenting the non-electronic prescription form or requesting the provision of an appliance in accordance with an electronic prescription form asks the supplier of appliances to do so—
(a) the supplier of appliances shall give an estimate of the time when the appliance will be ready; and
(b) if it is not ready by then, the supplier of appliances shall give a revised estimate of the time when it will be ready (and so on).
(2) Before providing an appliance in accordance with a prescription form—
(a) the supplier of appliances shall ask any person who makes a declaration that the person named on the prescription form does not have to pay the charges specified in regulation 3(1) or (1A) of the Charges Regulations by virtue of either—
(i) entitlement to exemption under regulation 7(1) of the Charges Regulations, or
(ii) entitlement to remission of charges under regulation 5 of the Remission of Charges Regulations,
to produce satisfactory evidence of such entitlement, unless the declaration is in respect of entitlement to exemption by virtue of sub-paragraph (a), (c), (d), (e), (f) or (g) of regulation 7(1) of the Charges Regulations or in respect of entitlement to remission by virtue of regulation 5(1)(e) or (2) of the Remission of Charges Regulations, and at the time of the declaration the supplier of appliances already has such evidence available to him;
(b) if, in the case of a non-electronic prescription form, no satisfactory evidence, as required by sub-paragraph (a), is produced to the supplier of appliances, the supplier of appliances shall endorse the form on which the declaration is made to that effect; and
(c) in the case of an electronic prescription form, the supplier of appliances shall transmit to the ETP service—
(i) in a case where exemption from or remission of charges is claimed, a record of—
(aa) the exemption category specified in regulation 7(1) of the Charges Regulations or the ground for remission under regulation 5 of the Remission of Charges Regulations which it is claimed applies to the case; and
(bb) whether or not satisfactory evidence was produced to him as required by sub-paragraph (a), and
(ii) in any case where a charge is due, confirmation that the relevant charge was paid.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/641/schedule/3/paragraph/5 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pharmaceutical-services-regulations-2005/schedule-3/paragraph-5
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