Jersey Law 35/1997

HEALTH INSURANCE (AMENDMENT No. 12) (JERSEY) LAW 1997

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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

22nd day of JULY 1997

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(Registered on the 29th day of August 1997)

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STATES OF JERSEY

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The 8th day of April 1997

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

ARTICLE 1

In the Second Schedule to the Health Insurance (Jersey) Law 1967,1 as amended (hereinafter referred to as “the principal Law”) –

(a)     for paragraph 2 there shall be substituted the following paragraph –

“2.         The Advisory Committee shall consist of –

(a)     a chairman appointed by the Committee;

(b)     three approved medical practitioners and two approved suppliers appointed in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 6 of this Schedule;

(c)     the Medical Officer of Health;

(d)     an officer of the Department of Employment and Social Security appointed by the Committee;

(e)     a pharmacist or a medical practitioner appointed by the Committee;

(f)      the Chief Pharmacist at the General Hospital.”;

(b)     in paragraph 6 for the words “paragraph 2(d)” there shall be substituted the words “2(b)”;

(c)     in paragraph 7 –

(i)      for the word “one” there shall be substituted the word “either”; and

(ii)     for the words “paragraph 2(a)” there shall be substituted the words “paragraph 2(d) or (e)”;

(d)     in the proviso to paragraph 8 there shall be inserted at the end the words “and a person appointed under paragraph 2(f) of this Schedule may only appoint the Deputy Chief Pharmacist at the General Hospital to act on his behalf”; and

(e)     in paragraph 9A for the words “one approved medical practitioner” there shall be substituted the words “two approved medical practitioners”.

ARTICLE 2

On the day appointed under Article 3 of this Law for the commencement of this Law the chairman and other members of the Pharmaceutical Benefit Advisory Committee (“the Committee”) constituted and so called by virtue of the Second Schedule to the principal Law who held office immediately before that day cease to hold office, but the Committee is preserved; and for the purposes of the appointment of the chairman and members referred to in paragraph 2 of that Schedule immediately after the commencement of this Law the proviso to sub-paragraph (1) of paragraph 4 of that Schedule shall have effect.

ARTICLE 3

This Law may be cited as the Health Insurance (Amendment No. 12) (Jersey) Law 1997 and shall come into force on a day to be appointed by the States.

G.H.C. COPPOCK

Greffier of the States