Part 7: Miscellaneous and general Section 80: Prohibition on charging for the provision of medical evidence of domestic abuse
Section 80 prohibits charges for the preparation and provision of domestic abuse legal aid letters by health professionals in general practice in the circumstances set out below.
	Charging is prohibited where a relevant health professional prepares or provides a letter supporting an application for legal aid in instances of domestic abuse and the health professional has assessed the patient in the course of providing services under a General Medical Services ("GMS"), Personal Medical Services ("PMS") or Alternative Provider Medical Services ("APMS") contract.
	Charging is also prohibited for the preparation or provision of a letter supporting an application for legal aid in instances of domestic abuse where a relevant health professional wholly or mainly provides services under a GMS, PMS or APMS contract.
	A relevant health professional is defined in subsection (4) and in practice means a health professional who works in general practice.
	This section also prohibits charging for this letter through any vehicle - both by the health professional themselves and the practice as a company or partnership.
	Subsection (3)(b) enables the Secretary of State to make regulations to extend the prohibitions to any other evidence letters or reports provided by relevant health professionals to demonstrate domestic abuse for purposes other than to obtain legal aid.
	Subsection (6) enables the Secretary of State in relation to England and the Welsh Ministers in relation to Wales to make regulations to amend the definitions of "relevant health professional" and "qualifying medical services contract".