# Smoking, Health and Social Care (Scotland) Act 2005, Section 24: Assistance and support: primary medical services and pharmaceutical care services

Status: prospective

After section 17X of the 1978 Act (as inserted by section 23 above), insert—
“Assistance and support: primary medical services and pharmaceutical care services
Assistance and support: primary medical services and pharmaceutical care services
17Y (1) A Health Board may provide assistance and support to—
(a) any person providing, or proposing to provide, primary medical services under a general medical services contract;
(b) any person providing, or proposing to provide, such services in accordance with section 17C arrangements;
(c) any person providing, or proposing to provide, pharmaceutical care services under a pharmaceutical care services contract.
(2) Assistance and support provided by a Health Board under subsection (1) is to be provided on such terms, including terms as to payment, as the Board think fit.
(3) In this section, “assistance” includes financial assistance.”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2005/13/section/24 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/smoking-health-and-social-care-scotland-act-2005/section-24
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