The Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2010 No. 201

Health And Personal Social Services

The Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010

Made

9th June 2010

Coming into operation

1st July 2010

The Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety(1), makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred 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.

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 and shall come into operation on 1st July 2010.

Amendment of Schedule 1 to the Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004

2.—(1) The Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004(3) are amended in accordance with paragraph (2).

(2) Column 2 of Table A in Schedule 1 (Modifications of the Income Support (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987), is amended as follows—

(a)in the modification of regulation 45 (Capital limit) of the Income Support (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987, for “£23,000” substitute “£23,250”; and

(b)in the modification of regulation 53 (Calculation of tariff income from capital) of those Regulations—

(i)for “£14,000” substitute “£14,250”, and

(ii)for “£23,000” substitute “£23,250”.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety on 9th June 2010

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Christine Jendoubi

A 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 9th June 2010

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Adrian Arbuthnot

A 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 9th June 2010

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Adrian Arbuthnot

A 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) 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 payment by the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety of travelling expenses incurred in attending a hospital for, amongst others, persons on low incomes, by reference to limits on their income and capital (“the low income scheme”).

In calculating a person’s resources and requirements under the principal Regulations in order to establish whether a person can claim entitlement to remission of Health Service charges and the payment of Health Services travelling expenses, a modified version of the Income Support (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987 is used, as set out in Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations.

Regulation 2 amends the modifications in Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations to increase the low income scheme capital limits for people living permanently in residential care homes or nursing homes.

(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 and S.R. 1991 No. 11