Jersey Law 15/1994

HEALTH INSURANCE (AMENDMENT No. 8) (JERSEY) LAW 1994

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A LAW   to amend further the Health Insurance (Jersey) Law 1967, sanctioned by Order of Her Majesty in Council of the

13th day of april 1994

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(Registered on the 27th day of May 1994)

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STATES OF JERSEY

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The 1st day of February 1994

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THE STATES, subject to the sanction of Her Most Excellent Majesty in Council, have adopted the following Law –

ARTICLE 1

(1)           For paragraphs (1) to (1C) of Article 24 of the Health Insurance (Jersey) Law 1967,1 as amended2 (hereinafter referred to as “the principal Law”), there shall be substituted the following paragraphs –

“(1)        For the purposes of this Law ‘pharmaceutical benefit’ means –

(a)     in relation to an approved medical practitioner or an approved dentist, any medicine, drug, appliance or material; and

(b)     in relation to a registered dentist, any medicine or drug,

for the time being approved by the Committee under this Article.

(1A)      Subject to the provisions of this Law, an insured person shall be entitled to receive, for the treatment of himself and any of his dependants, pharmaceutical benefit on prescription, that is to say, on a prescribed form given by an approved medical practitioner, an approved dentist or a registered dentist.

(1B)       An approved medical practitioner, an approved dentist or a registered dentist shall not be entitled to pharmaceutical benefit on a prescription given by himself for his own treatment.

(1C)       Where a registered dentist gives a prescription the provisions of Articles 25 and 36 of this Law (in so far as the said Article 36 relates to representation that conduct of an approved dentist has created an unreasonable charge on the Health Insurance Fund) shall apply to him as though he were a dentist approved under paragraph (1) of Article 35 of this Law.”.

(2)           For paragraph (7) of Article 24 of the principal Law there shall be substituted the following paragraphs –

“(7)        No order made under paragraph (6) of this Article (other than the first order thereunder) shall come into force until the expiration of at least one month from the date on which it is made.

(8)          Subject to paragraph (9) of this Article, the Committee shall approve medicines, drugs, appliances and materials as items of pharmaceutical benefit for the purposes of this Law and may at any time alter, vary or revoke any such approval.

(9)          Before exercising its powers under paragraph (8) of this Article the Committee shall consult with the Pharmaceutical Benefit Advisory Committee.

(10)        The Committee shall keep a list of items of pharmaceutical benefit and such list shall be open at all reasonable times to the inspection of any person without fee.

(11)        As soon as reasonably practicable thereafter, the Committee shall cause a notice to be published in the Jersey Gazette of the exercise of its powers under paragraph (8) of this Article.

(12)        In this Article ‘registered dentist’ has the same meaning as in the Dentists Registration (Jersey) Law 1961.”.

ARTICLE 2

Any medicine, drug, appliance or material which immediately before the commencement of this Law was prescribed in an Order made under paragraph (1) or (1A) of Article 24 of the principal Law, as those paragraphs were in force before that commencement, shall for all purposes be deemed to have been approved by the Committee under paragraph (8) of that Article as amended by this Law.

ARTICLE 3

This Law may be cited as the Health Insurance (Amendment No. 8) (Jersey) Law 1994 and shall come into force on such day as the States may by Act appoint.

G.H.C. COPPOCK

Greffier of the States.