The National Health Service (Travel Expenses and Remission of Charges) Amendment Regulations 2006

Statutory Instruments

2006 No. 1065

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND

The National Health Service (Travel Expenses and Remission of Charges) Amendment Regulations 2006

Made

5th April 2006

Laid before Parliament

10th April 2006

Coming into force

1st May 2006

The Secretary of State for Health makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred on her by sections 83A and 126(4) of the National Health Service Act 1977(1).

Citation, commencement, application and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (Travel Expenses and Remission of Charges) Amendment Regulations 2006 and shall come into force on 1st May 2006.

(2) These Regulations apply in relation to England.

(3) In these Regulations—

(a) “the Travel Expenses and Remission of Charges Regulations” means the National Health Service (Travel Expenses and Remission of Charges) Regulations 2003(2); and

(b) “the Income Support Regulations” means the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987(3).

Modifications of the Income Support Regulations in Schedule 1 of the Travel Expenses and Remission of Charges Regulations

2.—(1) Schedule 1 to the Travel Expenses and Remission of Charges Regulations (Modifications of Income Support Regulations) is amended as follows.

(2) In Table A, in the modifications of—

(a) regulation 45 of the Income Support Regulations, for paragraphs (a) to (c), substitute—

“(a) for a claimant permanently residing in accommodation as defined in Regulation 19A—£21,000;

(b) in any other case—£16,000.”;

(b) regulation 53 of the Income Support Regulations, for “£20,500” substitute “£21,000”; and

(c) regulation 53 of the Income Support Regulations, for “£12,500” substitute “£12,750”.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health

Warner

Minister of State,

Department of Health

5th April 2006

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the National Health Service (Travel Expenses and Remission of Charges) Regulations 2003 to increase the amounts used as the basis for calculating entitlement to the payment of travel expenses and the remission of charges under those Regulations.

(1)

1977 (c. 49). Section 83A was inserted by section 14(1) of the Social Security Act 1988 (c. 7) (“the 1988 Act”) and amended by section 25 of, and paragraph 6 of Schedule 2 to, the 1988 Act, section 41(10) of, and paragraph 19 of Schedule 2 to, the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997 (c. 46), article 2 of S.I. 1998/2385, article 3(1) of, and paragraph 5 and 13 of Schedule 1 to, S.I. 2000/90, section 66(1) of, and paragraph 18 (5) of Schedule 9 to the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19) (“the 1990 Act”), section 2(1) of, and paragraph 40 of Schedule 1 to, the Health Authorities Act 1995 (c. 17), section 2(5) of, and paragraphs 1 and 32 of Part 1 of Schedule 2 to, the National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 (c. 17) (“the Reform Act”) and by sections 34 and 184 of, and paragraphs 23 and 32(b) of Schedule 4 to, and paragraphs 7 and 31 of Schedule 11 to, the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards Act 2003 (c. 43) (“the 2003 Act”). Section 126(4) has been amended by section 65(2) of the 1990 Act, section 65(1) of, and paragraphs 4 and 37 of Schedule 4 to, the Health Act 1999 (c. 8) (“the 1999 Act”), section 67(1) of, and paragraph 5 and 13 of Part 1 of Schedule 5 to, the Health and Social Care Act 2001 (c. 15), sections 6(3)(c) and 37(1) of the Reform Act 2002 and sections 184 and 196 of, and paragraphs 7 and 38 of Schedule 11 to, and Part 4 of Schedule 14 to the 2003 Act. The functions of the Secretary of State under these provisions are, so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by article 2(a) of the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999, S.I. 1999/672, as amended by section 66(5) of the 1999 Act.

(2)

S.I. 2003/2382, as amended by S.I. 2004/663, S.I. 2004/936, S.I. 2005/26, S.I. 2005/578 and S.I. 2006/675.

(3)

S.I. 1987/1967.