195.Provisions around exclusion of contractors are set out in section 28WC.
196.Subsection (1) allows the Secretary of State to make regulations providing for a Primary Care Trust, or other prescribed person, to apply to the Family Health Service Appeal Authority (FHSAA) for a person to be disqualified from entering into a general ophthalmic services contract anywhere in England.
197.Subsection (2) specifies that regulations may in particular provide for review by the FHSAA of a disqualification and what is to happen to the general ophthalmic services contracts to which the disqualified person is a party when they are disqualified.
Commentary on Sections Ophthalmic Services Exclusion of contractors