The National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Amendment Regulations 1988

Amendment of Regulations

2.—(1) The National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (No. 2) Regulations 1982(1) are amended in accordance with the following paragraphs of this regulation.

(2) In regulation 3 (services exempted from charges), for paragraph (d) there is substituted the following paragraph—

“(d) at a special clinic for the treatment of sexually transmitted diseases or in respect of a sexually transmitted disease by virtue of a reference from such a clinic, but in the case of services which relate to infection with any Human Immunodeficiency Virus, only to the extent that they consist of a diagnostic test for evidence of infection with any such Virus and counselling associated with that test or its result;”.

(3) In Schedule 3 (charges for services provided for overseas visitors otherwise than as in-patients) to columns (1), (2) and (3) there are added at the end the following entries set out in columns (1), (2) and (3) respectively—

Column (1)	Column (2)	Column (3)
Services provided	Hospital Class A—E	Hospital Class F and G
SUPPLY OF DRUGS AND MEDICINES 11.  For the supply of a drug or medicine which is designed to eliminate, prevent the replication of, or in any way inhibit the mode of action of, any Human Immunodeficiency Virus — for each quantity sufficient for one day’s treatment.
14.50
14.50

(1)

S.I. 1982/863; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1983/302, 1986/459 and 1987/371.