Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2022 No. 195

Health And Personal Social Services

The Provision of Health Services to Persons Not Ordinarily Resident (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022

Made

6th July 2022

Coming into operation

7th July 2022

The Department of Health(1), in exercise of the powers conferred by Articles 42, 106(b) and 107(6) of the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972(2),in conjunction with the Department of Finance(3), makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencementN.I.

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Provision of Health Services to Persons Not Ordinarily Resident (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022 and shall come into operation on 7th July 2022.

Commencement Information

I1Reg. 1 in operation at 7.7.2022, see reg. 1

Amendment to Schedule 1 to the Provision of Health Services to Persons Not Ordinarily Resident Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015N.I.

2.  In Schedule 1 (Diseases for which no charge is to be made for treatment) to the Provision of Health Services to Persons Not Ordinarily Resident Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015(4) after “Measles” insert the following entry:

“Monkeypox”.

Commencement Information

I2Reg. 2 in operation at 7.7.2022, see reg. 1

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health on 6th July 2022

(L.S.)

Chris Matthews

A senior officer of the Department of Health

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Finance on 6th July 2022

(L.S.)

Patrick Neeson

A senior officer of the Department of Finance

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Provision of Health Services to Persons Not Ordinarily Resident Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 (“the 2015 Regulations”) which make provision as to the entitlement of, and exemption from charges for, services forming part of health services which may be provided to visitors to Northern Ireland.

Regulation 4(1)(d) of the 2015 Regulations provides that no charge shall be made in respect of services forming part of the health services that are provided to a visitor for treatment in respect of a disease listed in Schedule 1 to the 2015 Regulations. Regulation 2 of these Regulations amends that Schedule to insert an entry for Monkeypox. The effect is that a visitor who is being treated in a hospital in Northern Ireland for Monkeypox will be exempt from charges for any Health Service treatment received in respect of that condition.

(3)

see 2016 c. 5 (N.I.), s1(4)