Part 1: Main Provisions Section 13: Indemnity for health and social care activity: Northern Ireland
The section enables the Department of Health in Northern Ireland (the "Department") to provide indemnity for clinical negligence arising from the NHS activities carried out in Northern Ireland in the same circumstances as section 11 provides that the Secretary of State or the Welsh Ministers can provide indemnities. The Department also has powers to make arrangements authorising another person to provide such indemnity.
	The territorial extent and application of this section is Northern Ireland only.