National Health Service (Indemnities) (Wales) Act 2020
National Health Service (Indemnities) (Wales) Act 2020
2020 anaw 2
An Act of the National Assembly for Wales to amend the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006 to make provision about indemnities in respect of expenses and liabilities arising in connection with the provision of health services.
[26 February 2020]
Having been passed by the National Assembly for Wales and having received the assent of Her Majesty, it is enacted as follows:
1 Indemnities in connection with provision of health services
(1) Section 30 of the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006 (c.42) is amended as follows.
(2) In subsection (1)—
(a)
(a) after “scheme” insert “(a “mutual indemnity scheme”)”;
(b)
(b) after “the bodies” (in both places it occurs) insert “or other persons”.
(3) In subsection (2)—
(a)
(a) in the words before paragraph (a), after “The bodies” insert “and other persons”;
(b)
(b) in paragraph (b) omit “and”;
(c)
(c) after paragraph (c) insert—
“(f) a person who is providing, or who has provided, primary medical services in accordance with a contract or other arrangement under Part 4, and
(g) a body or other person (other than a body or other person specified under paragraphs (a) to (f)) who is providing or arranging the provision of, or who has provided or arranged the provision of, health services whose provision is the subject of a contract or other arrangements with a Local Health Board, NHS trust or Special Health Authority,”;
(d)
(d) in the words after paragraph (g)—
(i) for “scheme under this section” substitute “mutual indemnity scheme”;
(ii) after “bodies which” insert “, or other persons who,”.
(4) In subsection (3)—
(a)
(a) in the words before paragraph (a), for “scheme under this section” substitute “mutual indemnity scheme”;
(b)
(b) in paragraph (b) after “body which” insert “, or other person who,”.
(5) In subsection (4), for “body” substitute “Local Health Board, NHS trust or Special Health Authority”.
(6) In subsection (5), for “scheme”, the first time it occurs, substitute “mutual indemnity scheme”.
(7) In subsection (7), for “scheme under this section” substitute “mutual indemnity scheme”.
(8) After subsection (7) insert—
“(8) The Welsh Ministers may by regulations establish a scheme (a “direct indemnity scheme”) under which they may indemnify any of the bodies or other persons specified in subsection (2) against—
(a) expenses arising from any loss of or damage to their...
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