The National Health Service (Charges for Drugs and Appliances) and (Travel Expenses and Remission of Charges) Amendment Regulations 2004

Amendments of the Travel Expenses and Remission of Charges Regulations

5.—(1) The Travel Expenses and Remission of Charges Regulations are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 2 (interpretation) after the definition of “relevant income” there is inserted the following definition—

““severe disability element” means the severe disability element of working tax credit as specified in section11(6)(d) of the Tax Credits Act 2002 (maximum rate)(1).”

(3) In regulation 5(1)(e) (entitlement to full remission and payment)—

(a) in head (ii) after “disability element” there is inserted “or severe disability element”; and

(b) for the figure “£14,200” there is substituted “£14,600”.

(4) In regulation 14 (payment and repayment of NHS foreign travel expenses) for paragraph (2) there is substituted—

“(2) Paragraphs (2) to (4) of regulation 7 (claims to entitlement) apply to a claim (whether for payment or repayment) made under this regulation as if the references to the Secretary of State in those paragraphs were references to the health service body which arranged the services referred to in regulation 3(2).”.

(1)

2002 c. 21.