Provision of Health Services to Persons Not Ordinarily Resident Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015

Visitors exempt from charges – prisoners and detainees

19.  No charge may be made or recovered in respect of any services forming part of health services provided to a visitor—

(a) who is detained in prison or in a young offenders centre provided by the Department of Justice under the Prison Act (Northern Ireland) 1953(1) as extended by section 2 of the Treatment of Offenders Act (Northern Ireland) 1968(2) or in a juvenile justice centre provided under Article 51 of the Criminal Justice (Children) (Northern Ireland) Order 1998(3); or

(b) who is detained under any of the following provisions—

(i) Schedule 2 (administrative provisions as to control on entry etc) or 3 (supplementary provisions as to deportation) to the Immigration Act 1971(4);

(ii) section 62 (detention by Secretary of State) of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002(5);

(iii) section 40(7)(c) (searches: contracting out) of the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006(6);

(iv) section 2 (detention) or 36 (detention) of the UK Borders Act 2007(7).

(1)

1953 c. 18 (N.I.)

(2)

1968 c. 29 (N.I.)

(3)

S.I. 1998/1504 (N.I. 9)

(4)

1971 c. 77. Relevant amendments to Schedule 2 are made by section 169(1) of, and paragraphs 43 and 60 of Schedule 14 to, the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 (c. 33) (“the 1999 Act”), and section 140(1) of that Act, section 73(5) of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (c. 41) (“the 2002 Act”) and section 42(1) and (3) of the Immigration Asylum and Nationality Act 2006 (c. 13) (“the 2006 Act”). Relevant amendments to Schedule 3 are made by section 64 of, and Schedule 10 to, the Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48), section 54 of the 1999 Act, and section 169(1) of, and paragraphs 43 and 68 of Schedule 14 to that Act, section 114(3) of, and paragraph 7 of Schedule 7 to, the 2002 Act, section 34 of the Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc) Act 2004 (c. 19), and section 53 of the 2006 Act.

(5)

2002 c. 41.

(6)

2006 c. 13.

(7)

2007 c. 30.