Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)

These Regulations further amend the Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1989 (“the principal Regulations”) which provide for remission and repayment of certain charges which would otherwise be payable under the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972 and for the payment by the Department of travelling expenses incurred in attending a hospital.

In particular

• regulation 4 of the principal Regulations is amended by providing for the remission of dental charges to be determined by reference to the patient’s circumstances either at the time the arrangements for treatment are made or at the time the charge for treatment is made and by providing for remission to apply in respect of the whole course of treatment concerned.

• the Schedule to the principal Regulations is amended to modify the application of the Income Support Regulations in relation to the treatment of students and in relation to the calculation of personal allowances and family premiums. Under the principal Regulations, the resources and requirements of claimants are calculated by reference to the Income Support (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987, as modified.