Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2000 No. 102

HEALTH AND PERSONAL SOCIAL SERVICES

Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000

Made

20th March 2000

Coming into operation

1st April 2000

The Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety(1), in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Articles 45, 98, 106 and 107(6) of, and paragraphs (1)(b) and 1B of Schedule 15 to, the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972(2) and with the approval of the Department of Finance and Personnel insofar as they relate to the remission of charges, and in conjunction with the Department of Finance and Personnel insofar as they relate to travelling expenses, and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000 and shall come into operation on 1st April 2000.

(2) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1989(3).

Amendment of regulation 2 of the pricipal Regulations

2.  In regulation 2 of the principal Regulations (interpretation) after sub-paragraph (c) in the definition of “family” there shall be added the following sub-paragraph—

“(d) where a claim has been made for support under Part VI of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999(4), it means the asylum-seeker who has made that claim and any dependant, as defined in section 94 of that Act, whom he has included in that claim;”.

Amendment of regulation 4 of the principal Regulations

3.  At the end of paragraph (1) of regulation 4 of the principal Regulations (description of persons entitled to full remission and payment) there shall be added the following sub-paragraphs—

“, or

(n) an asylum-seeker for whom support is provided under Part VI of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999; or

(o) a member of the same family as a person described in sub-paragraph (n).”.

Amendment of regulation 7 of the principal Regulations

4.  In regulation 7(1) of the principal Regulations (claims for remission or payment), in sub-paragraph (a)(ii), for “(e), (f) or (m)” there shall be substituted “(e), (f), (m), (n) or (o)”.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety on 20th March 2000.

L.S.

D. A. Baker

Senior Officer of the

Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Finance and Personnel insofar as the foregoing Regulations relate to Travelling Expenses on 20th March 2000.

L.S.

J. G. Sullivan

Senior Officer of the

Department of Finance and Personnel

The Department of Finance and Personnel hereby approves the foregoing Regulations insofar as they relate to the Remission of Charges.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Finance and Personnel on 20th March 2000.

L.S.

J. G. Sullivan

Senior Officer of the

Department of Finance and Personnel

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)

These Regulations further amend the Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1989 (“the principal Regulations”), which provide for remission and repayment of certain charges which would otherwise be payable under the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972 and for the payment by the Department of travelling expenses incurred in attending a hospital.

Regulations 2, 3 and 4 amend the principal Regulations to provide for the payment of travelling expenses and remission of charges to asylum-seekers and their dependants.

(1)

See S.I. 1999/283 (N.I. 1) Article 3(6)

(2)

S.I. 1972/1265 (N.I. 14); relevant amending Instruments are S.I. 1988/594 (N.I. 2) Article 14 and S.I. 1991/194 (N.I. 1) Article. 34 and Part II of Schedule 5

(3)

S.R. 1989 No. 348; relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 1995 No. 138, S.R. 1996 Nos. 107 and 425, S.R. 1997 No. 185, and S.R. 1999 Nos. 166 and 395

(4)

1999 c. 33