HEALTH AND PERSONAL SOCIAL SERVICES (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1972

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HEALTH AND PERSONAL SOCIAL SERVICES (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1972 - SECT 31



31.(1) If the Ministry is satisfied that it is reasonable to do so, it may,
subject to the provisions of this Article, authorise accommodation and
services at a hospital vested in it to be made available, to such extent as it
may determine, for resident patients who undertake, or in respect of whom an
undertaking is given, to pay such charges as the Ministry may, in accordance
with the following provisions of this Article, determine, and the Ministry may
recover those charges.

(2) The Ministry may allow accommodation and services to which an
authorisation under paragraph (1) relates to be made available in connection
with the treatment, in pursuance of arrangements made by a medical or dental
practitioner serving, whether in an honorary or paid capacity, on the staff of
a hospital, of private patients of that practitioner as resident patients.

(3) The Ministry may, for the purpose of determining charges to be paid under
paragraph (1), classify the hospitals and may, in the case of each class,
determine, in respect of each period of twelve months beginning with the 1st
[May] first falling after the date on which the determination is made, the
charges to be paid under paragraph (1) in respect of accommodation and
services provided during that period at a hospital falling within that class;
and, in determining such charges in respect of a period, the Ministry

(a)shall have regard, so far as reasonably practicable, to the total cost
(exclusive of costs appearing to it to be properly attributable to capital
account) which, by reference to facts known to it at the time of the
determination, it is estimated will be incurred during that period in the
provision for resident patients of services at hospitals falling within that
class; and

(b)may include in any such charges, in such cases as appear fit, such amounts
as appear proper and reasonable to be included by way of contribution to
expenditure appearing to it to be properly attributable to capital account.

(4) The Ministry may, under paragraph (3), determine different charges for
different accommodation and for different services and in relation to
different circumstances.

(5) The Ministry may allow such deduction from the amount of a charge due by
virtue of an undertaking given under this Article by, or in respect of, a
patient as it thinks proper

(a)in respect of treatment given to the patient under paragraph (2); and

(b)in respect of any period during which the accommodation to which the
undertaking relates is temporarily vacated by the patient.

(6) Nothing in this Article shall prevent accommodation from being made
available for a patient other than one mentioned in paragraph (1), if the use
thereof is needed more urgently for him on medical grounds than for a patient
so mentioned and other suitable accommodation is not available.

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HEALTH AND PERSONAL SOCIAL SERVICES (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1972 - SECT 31