6B Exemption from charges for overseas visitors with UK reciprocal healthcare entitlements before IP completion day
1 No charge may be made or recovered in respect of any services forming part of the health service provided on or after IP completion day to an overseas visitor who is ordinarily resident in an EEA State or Switzerland, was ordinarily resident there immediately before IP completion day, and either—
(a) immediately before IP completion day held a valid UK reciprocal healthcare document, or
(b) at the time that the treatment which constitutes the services was provided, would have been eligible to be issued with a UK reciprocal healthcare document if IP completion day had not occurred.
2 In paragraph (1) “UK reciprocal healthcare document” means an S1 certificate, A1 healthcare certificate, European Health Insurance Card or equivalent document issued by a competent institution of the United Kingdom.
Regs. 6B, 6C inserted (31.12.2020) by The National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Scotland) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/333), regs. 1(2), 8; 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)