The National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) Amendment Regulations 1995

Amendment of regulation 7 of the principal Regulations

5.  In regulation 7 of the principal Regulations (claims for remission or payment)—

(a) in paragraph (1), for the words “regulation 4(e) or (f)” there shall be substituted the words “regulation 4(e), (f), (i) or (j)”;

(b) in paragraph (3), after the word “requirements” there shall be inserted the words “or, in the case of a claim by a person who is within a description prescribed by regulation 4(i) or (j), the capital resources”; and

(c) for paragraph (6) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—

“(6) A notice of entitlement issued under paragraph (4) shall be effective—

(a) in the case of a person who is within a description prescribed by regulation 4(i) or (j), from the date of claim until the date on which disability working allowance payable at the date of claim to that person or, as the case may be, to a member of that person’s family, under an award of that allowance made on or before the date of claim, ceases to be payable; or

(b) in any other case, for a period of 6 months from the date of claim.

subject to its being superseded by any further notice issued as a result of a claim made in accordance with paragraph (8), and shall specify the dates of commencement and expiry of that period.”.