National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006

109 Fraud and unsuitability cases: supplementary

(1) Where the practitioner is a body corporate, the body corporate must be treated for the purposes of this Chapter as meeting a condition referred to in section 107(3) or (4)—

(a) in the case of an optometrist not referred to in paragraph (b), if any director meets that condition (whether or not he first did so when he was a director), and

(b) in the case of a body corporate providing pharmaceutical services or an optometrist which is a limited liability partnership, if any one of the body of persons controlling the body meets that condition (whether or not he first did so when he was such a person).

(2) A practitioner must be treated for the purposes of this Chapter as meeting the condition referred to in section 107(3) if—

(a) another person, because of an act or omission of his occurring in the course of providing any services mentioned in section 107(1) on the practitioner’s behalf, meets that condition, and

(b) the practitioner failed to take all such steps as were reasonable to prevent acts or omissions within section 107(3)(a) occurring in the course of the provision of those services on his behalf.