The National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Scotland) Amendment (No.2) Regulations 1988

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Scotland) Amendment (No.2) Regulations 1988 and shall come into force on 1st April 1988.

(2) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Scotland) Regulations 1982(1).

Amendment of the principal Regulations

2.  In regulation 2 of the principal Regulations (charges for services forming part of the health service)—

(a) for paragraph (3)(2)there shall be substituted the following:—

“(3) Where the services forming part of the health service are provided for an overseas visitor, otherwise than as an in-patient of a health service hospital, at, or by staff employed to work at or under the direction of, a hospital, there shall be made and recovered, in respect of each occasion on which such services are provided, a charge the amount of which shall be—

(a) except where it falls to be determined under sub-paragraph (b) below, the sum specified in Column (2) of Schedule 3 opposite the entry in Column (1) of that Schedule which relates to the services provided;

(b) in the case of the procedures to which paragraph 5(i) of Schedule 3 relates, the sum determined by multiplying the number of unit values specified in Schedule 4 for the group into which the relevant procedure falls, by the appropriate unit charge specified opposite paragraph 5(i) of Schedule 3.”;

(b) after paragraph (4) there shall be inserted the following paragraph:—

“(5) For purposes of paragraph (2) and Schedule 2, a “single room” means a room used for the accommodation of one patient only, such room having a floor area of not less than 10 square metres (or 8 square metres where a room is for the accommodation of a child under the age of 10 years) and being completely enclosed by walls or partitions and doors, and having been decorated within the previous 7 years.”.

3.—(1) For Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations (daily charges for services provided for overseas visitors as in-patients)(3)there shall be substituted the Schedule set out in Schedule 1 to these Regulations.

(2) For Schedule 3 to the principal Regulations (charges for services provided for overseas visitors otherwise than as in-patients)(4)there shall be substituted the Schedule set out in Schedule 2 to these Regulations.

(3) For Schedule 4 to the principal Regulations (unit values for purpose of determining charges for radiological procedures)(5)there shall be substituted the Schedule set out in Schedule 3 to these Regulations.

Revocations

4.  Regulations 2 and 5 of the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1983(6), the whole of the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1986(7), and regulation 3 of the National Health Services (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Scotland) Amendment (No 2) Regulations 1986(8)are hereby revoked.

Michael B Forsyth

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office

New St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

10th March 1988