If the Minister is satisfied, in the case of a hospital providing hospital and specialist services, that it is reasonable so to do, he may authorise accommodation and services at the hospital to be made, to such extent as he may determine, available in connection with the treatment, in pursuance of arrangements made by a medical practitioner or dental practitioner serving, whether in an honorary or paid capacity, on the staff of any such hospital, of private patients of that practitioner otherwise than as resident patients, being patients who undertake, or in respect of whom an undertaking is given, to pay, in respect of the provision of any such accommodation and any such services, such charges as the Minister may determine, and the Minister may recover those charges.
The Minister may under the foregoing subsection determine different charges for different accommodation and for different services and in relation to different circumstances.
No accommodation and no services shall be so made available under subsection (1) above as to prejudice persons availing themselves of services at the hospital otherwise than as private patients.