Scottish Statutory Instruments
National Health Service
Made
at 3.00 p.m. on 29th January 2020
Laid before the Scottish Parliament
at 4.30 p.m. on 29th January 2020
Coming into force
30th January 2020
The Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of powers conferred by sections 98 and 105 of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978(1) and all other powers enabling them to do so.
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2020.
(2) These Regulations come into force on 30 January 2020.
2. In schedule 1 (diseases for the treatment of which no charge is to be made) of the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Scotland) Regulations 1989(2), after “Whooping cough” insert “Wuhan novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV)”.
JEANE FREEMAN
A member of the Scottish Government
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
At 3.00 p.m. on 29th January 2020
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Scotland) Regulations 1989 (S.I. 1989/364) (“the 1989 Regulations”), which provide for the making and recovery of charges for relevant services provided under the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978. Schedule 1 of the 1989 Regulations, as introduced by regulation 3 of the 1989 Regulations, contains a list of diseases for the treatment of which no charge is to be made.
Regulation 2 of these Regulations amends schedule 1 of the 1989 Regulations to include Wuhan novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) as one of the diseases for the treatment of which no charge is to be made.
A full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sector is foreseen.
1978 c.29. Section 98 was amended by the Health and Medicines Act 1988 (c.49), section 7(13) and (14). Section 105(7), which was amended by the Health Services Act 1980 (c.53), schedule 6, paragraph 5 and schedule 7, the Health and Social Services and Social Security Adjudications Act 1983 (c.41), schedule 9, paragraph 24 and the Health Act 1999 (c.8), schedule 4, paragraph 60, contains provisions relevant to the exercise of the powers under which these Regulations are made. Section 108(1) contains definitions of “prescribed” and “regulations” relevant to the exercise of the statutory powers under which these Regulations are made. The functions of the Secretary of State were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of the Scotland Act 1998 (c.46), section 53.
S.I. 1989/364. Amended by S.I. 1992/411, S.I. 1994/1770, S.I. 1998/251, S.S.I. 2004/369, S.S.I. 2006/141, S.S.I. 2008/290, S.S.I. 2009/177, S.S.I. 2012/87 and S.S.I. 2014/70.