These Regulations amend the Provision of Health Services to Persons Not Ordinarily Resident Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 (“the principal Regulations”) which make available, to visitors in Northern Ireland, certain health services under the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972 (S.I. 1972/1265 (N.I. 14)), at a charge determined by the Department of Health.

Regulation 1 contains commencement, citation and interpretation provisions.

Regulation 2 amends Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations to add the Faroe Islands, Ireland, Kosovo, Norway and Switzerland to the list of countries and territories with which reciprocal health care arrangements have been concluded and makes other minor amendments to Schedule 2.

Regulation 2 also omits Armenia, Azerbaijan, Barbados, Belarus, Croatia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan from Schedule 2 to remove countries with which the United Kingdom no longer has reciprocal healthcare arrangements.