The Provision of Health Services to Persons Not Ordinarily Resident (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019

Amendment of regulation 2

2.  In regulation 2(1) (interpretation) of the principal Regulations—

(a) before the definition of “general health services” insert—

““EEA National” means a national of an EEA State;

“exit day” has the meaning given in section 20 of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018;”;

(b) after the definition of “HSC trust” insert—

““immigration rules” means the rules laid before Parliament under section 3(2) (general provisions for regulation and control) of the Immigration Act 1971(1);”;

(c) for the definition of “treatment the need for which arose during the visit” substitute—

““treatment the need for which arose during the visit” means

(a)

diagnosis of symptoms or signs occurring for the first time after the visitor’s arrival in Northern Ireland; or

(b)

treatment, provided that the visitor has not travelled to Northern Ireland for the purpose of seeking that treatment, which in the opinion of a medical practitioner or dentist employed by, or under contract with, the Board or a HSC Trust, is required promptly for a condition which arose, or became acutely exacerbated, after the visitor’s arrival, or which, but for the treatment, would be likely to become exacerbated,

which cannot wait until the visitor can reasonably be expected to return to the visitor’s country of ordinary residence..”.

(1)

1971 c. 77