The National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) Regulations 1988

Repayment

8.—(1) Subject to the following provisions of these Regulations, a person of a description prescribed by regulation 4 or 5(1) who pays any relevant charge or relevant travelling expenses without exercising his right under regulation 3(1) or 5(1) to remission or payment is entitled to be repaid whatever amount would otherwise have been remitted or paid.

(2) It is a condition of the entitlement to repayment under paragraph (1) of a person of any description that he makes a claim to the Secretary of State for repayment within one month after payment of the relevant charge or relevant travelling expenses and that he makes that claim on a form provided by or on behalf of the Secretary of State for that purpose for persons of that description.

(3) It is a further condition of entitlement to repayment under paragraph (1) that the claimant produces in support of his claim such evidence as the Secretary of State may reasonably require.

(4) If the Secretary of State is satisfied that a claimant is entitled to any repayment under paragraph (1) he shall cause a repayment to be made to him in such manner as appears to the Secretary of State to be appropriate in the circumstances of the particular case.