National Health Service (Free Prescriptions and Charges for Drugs and Appliances) (Wales) Regulations 2007

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(Supply of drugs in the event of a pandemic)

• (1) No charges may be made or recovered under these Regulations in respect of a supply of drugs which is—

• (a) made—

• (i) while a disease is pandemic, or

• (ii) in anticipation of a disease being imminently pandemic,

and is a serious risk, or potentially a serious risk, to human health; and

• (b) in accordance with a protocol relating to that disease as provided for in regulation 247 of the Human Medicines Regulations 2012 .

Repayment of certain charges paid under the Charges Regulations 2000

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• (1) Where a charge has been paid under the Charges Regulations 2000, whether or not in accordance with these Regulations, by or on behalf of a person who is, at the time the charge was paid, a person who—

• (a) is resident in Wales; and

• (b) receives primary medical services under Part 4 of the 2006 Act from a provider who is contracted to provide such services with a Local Health Board,

an application for the repayment of that charge may be made in accordance with paragraph (2).

• (2) An application for repayment made by or on behalf of a person described in paragraph (1) must—

• (a) be made in such form and manner as the Welsh Ministers may determine;

• (b) be made within 3 months from the date on which the charge was paid, or within such period as the Welsh Ministers may, for good cause, allow; and

• (c) be accompanied by the receipt for the charge paid and a declaration that the person was, at the time the charge was paid, a person described in paragraph (1).

Transitional Provisions

Minor and Consequential Amendments

Revocations