In this Schedule—

• “designated” means designated in writing by the Welsh Ministers (and different designations may be made for different purposes) F1 and “designate” must be read accordingly,

• “drugs” includes medicines and listed appliances (within the meaning given by section 80),

• F2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

• “remuneration referable to the cost of drugs” includes (F3. . . subject to sub-paragraph (2)) remuneration payable to persons providing local pharmaceutical services.

The Welsh Ministers must determine what remuneration paid by Local Health Boards to persons providing pharmaceutical services or local pharmaceutical services must be treated for the purposes of this Schedule as remuneration referable to the cost of drugs.

The Welsh Ministers may treat all remuneration paid by Local Health Boards to such persons, so far as it is met by an NHS trust under section 180(4), as remuneration referable to the cost of drugs for those purposes.

If the Welsh Ministers do not treat such remuneration, so far as it is so met by an NHS trust, as remuneration referable to the cost of drugs, they may treat it as remuneration falling within paragraph 3A(1).