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

Regulations 8A, 8B and 8C

5.  After regulation 8 insert—

“Visitors exempt from charges – frontier workers

8A.— (1) No charge may be made or recovered in respect of any services forming part of health services, provided to a visitor who is a relevant frontier worker.

(2) In paragraph (1) “relevant frontier worker” means a person who—

(a) on or after exit day, is pursuing in Northern Ireland activity as an employed or self-employed person which the person began to pursue there before exit day;

(b) resides in an EEA State or Switzerland; and

(c) returns to their residence in that EEA State or Switzerland (as the case may be) daily or at least once a week.

Visitors exempt from charges – retired frontier workers

8B.— (1) No charge may be made or recovered in respect of any services forming part of health services for the continuation of treatment which began to be provided on or before exit day, to a visitor who is a relevant retired frontier worker.

(2) In paragraph (1)—

“continuation of treatment” means the continued investigation, diagnosis or treatment of an illness;

“relevant retired frontier worker” means a person who before exit day, had pursued in Northern Ireland an activity as an employed or self-employed person, and who had terminated that activity immediately upon receipt of either a United Kingdom state pension or benefit payable because that person can no longer work due to ill health or disability.

Visitors exempt from charges – posted workers

8C.— (1) No charge may be made or recovered in respect of any services forming part of health services, provided to a visitor who is a relevant posted worker.

(2) In paragraph (1) “relevant posted worker” means—

(a) a person who before exit day, was pursuing in the United Kingdom activity as an employed person on behalf of an employer which normally carries out its activities there and who was posted by that employer to an EEA State or Switzerland to perform work on that employer’s behalf; or

(b) a person who before exit day, was pursuing in the United Kingdom activity as a self-employed person, and who went on to pursue similar activity in an EEA State or Switzerland; and

the duration of such activity does not exceed twenty-four months.”.