These Regulations further amend the Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004 (“the principal Regulations”), which provide for remission and payment 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.

Regulation 2 amends regulation 5 of the principal Regulations extending entitlement to payment in full of travel expenses and full remission of charges to a relevant child within the meaning of section 34B of the Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 whom a responsible authority is supporting under section 34C of that Order.