Power to reimburse costs 1 Power for Scottish Ministers to reimburse costs relating to the removal of 5 transvaginal mesh (1) The Scottish Ministers may make a scheme for the making of payments by them reimbursing costs incurred in connection with qualifying mesh removal surgery. (2) “Mesh removal surgery” is surgery a principal purpose of which is to wholly or partially remove from a person’s body synthetic mesh which was originally implanted 10 transvaginally (that is, by means of insertion through the person’s vaginal wall) for the 1 purpose of treating stress urinary incontinence or pelvic organ prolapse. (3) Mesh removal surgery is “qualifying” mesh removal surgery if it was arranged— (a) other than by a health board, (b) in relation to a person who was, at the time the surgery was arranged, ordinarily 15 resident in Scotland, and (c) before a date...