The National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2006

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2006.

(2) Subject to paragraph (3), these regulations shall come into force on 1st April 2006.

(3) Regulations 2(6)(a)(ii), (b) and (c) shall come into force on 1st May 2006.

(4) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) (Scotland) (No. 2) Regulations 2003(1).

Amendment of the principal Regulations

2.—(1) The principal Regulations are amended as follows.

(2) For regulation 6 (payment of relevant travelling expenses)(2) substitute–

“6.   Where a payment falls to be made under regulations 3(1) or 5(1) in respect of relevant travelling expenses that payment shall be made by–

(a) the National Waiting Times Centre Board(3) when the hospital attended is the hospital accommodation and ancillary facilities located at Beardmore Way, Dalmuir, Clydebank; and, in any other case

(b) the Health Board in whose area the hospital attended is situated.”.

(3) In regulation 7 (payment to persons resident in the Highlands and Islands)(4)–

(a) in paragraph (1)(b) for “£8” (in both places where it occurs) substitute “£10”;

(b) for paragraph (4) substitute–

“(4) Where a payment falls to be made under paragraph (1) in respect of relevant travelling expenses, that payment shall be made by–

(a) the National Waiting Times Centre Board when the hospital attended is the hospital accommodation and ancillary facilities located at Beardmore Way, Dalmuir, Clydebank; and, in any other case

(b) the Health Board in whose area the hospital attended is situated.”.

(4) In regulation 11 (repayment)(5)–

(a) in sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph (6) after “Board” where it appears in head (ii) and at the end of that sub-paragraph insert–

“or the National Waiting Times Centre Board (as the case may be)”; and

(b) in paragraph (7) after “Board” insert–

“or the National Waiting Times Centre Board”.

(5) In regulation 12(1) (reimbursement of payments made in respect of travelling expenses)(6) after “Board” where it first appears in the paragraph insert–

“or the National Waiting Times Centre Board”.

(6) In Table A of the Schedule, in the entries relating to–

(a) regulation 45–

(i) for “£8,000” substitute “£16,000”; and

(ii) for “£12,000” substitute “£16,000”;

(b) regulations 45 and 53, for “£20,500”, in each place where it occurs, substitute “£21,000”; and

(c) regulation 53, for “£12,500” substitute “£12,750”.

(7) In Table B of the Schedule, in the entry relating to Schedule 3B, for “£3,000” substitute “£6,000”.

Transitional provisions

3.  Under regulations 6, 7 and 11 of the principal Regulations payments shall only be made by the National Waiting Times Centre Board in respect of claims received on or after 1st April 2006.

Revocation

4.  The National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2006(7) are revoked.

LEWIS MACDONALD

Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

30th March 2006