Health Insurance
Fund (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Jersey) Law 2011
A LAW to withdraw money from the
Health Insurance Fund for 2011, to enable the withdrawal of money from that
Fund for 2012 and to authorize the withdrawal of certain expenses from that
Fund.
Adopted by the
States 18th November 2010
Sanctioned by
Order of Her Majesty in Council 12th October 2011
Registered by the
Royal Court 21st
October 2011
THE STATES, subject to the sanction of Her Most Excellent Majesty in Council, have
adopted the following Law –
1 Withdrawal
of money from Health Insurance Fund for 2011
(1) Notwithstanding
Article 21(1) of the Health Insurance (Jersey) Law 1967[1], there shall be withdrawn
from the Health Insurance Fund and credited to the consolidated fund the sum of
£6,131,100, for the purpose of funding primary care services in 2011.
(2) Money
credited to the consolidated fund pursuant to paragraph (1) is, for the
purposes of the Public Finances (Jersey) Law 2005[2], to be treated as income of,
and paid into the consolidated fund by, the Health and Social Services
Department.
2 Authority
to withdraw money from Health Insurance Fund for 2012
(1) Notwithstanding
Article 21(1) of the Health Insurance (Jersey) Law 1967, there shall
be withdrawn from the Health Insurance Fund and credited to the consolidated
fund, for the purpose of funding primary care services in 2012, such sum (if
any) as is specified in a proposition lodged by the Minister for Social
Security and adopted by the States.
(2) Money
credited to the consolidated fund pursuant to paragraph (1) is, for the
purposes of the Public Finances (Jersey) Law 2005, to be treated as income
of, and paid into the consolidated fund by, the Health and Social Services
Department.
3 Authority
for Minister to withdraw expenses from Health Insurance Fund
Notwithstanding Article 21(1) of the Health Insurance (Jersey)
Law 1967, the Minister for Social Security may pay out of the Health
Insurance Fund expenses incurred in developing an infrastructure (to include a
system for data-gathering) and establishing arrangements for –
(a) primary
care governance; and
(b) the
assessment and monitoring of primary care standards.
4 Citation
This Law may be cited as the Health Insurance Fund (Miscellaneous
Provisions) (Jersey) Law 2011.
a.h. harris
Deputy Greffier of the States