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

Amendment of the principal Regulations

2.—(1) The principal Regulations are amended as follows.

(2) For regulation 6 (payment of relevant travelling expenses)(1) substitute–

“6.   Where a payment falls to be made under regulations 3(1) or 5(1) in respect of relevant travelling expenses that payment shall be made by–

(a) the National Waiting Times Centre Board(2) when the hospital attended is the hospital accommodation and ancillary facilities located at Beardmore Way, Dalmuir, Clydebank; and, in any other case;

(b) the Health Board in whose area the hospital attended is situated.”.

(3) In regulation 7 (payment to persons resident in the Highlands and Islands)(3)–

(a) in paragraph (1)(b) for “£8” (in both places where it occurs) substitute “£10”;

(b) for paragraph (4) substitute–

“(4) Where a payment falls to be made under paragraph (1) in respect of relevant travelling expenses, that payment shall be made by–

(a) the National Waiting Times Centre Board when the hospital attended is the hospital accommodation and ancillary facilities located at Beardmore Way, Dalmuir, Clydebank; and, in any other case;

(b) the Health Board in whose area the hospital attended is situated.”.

(4) In regulation 11 (repayment)(4)–

(a) in sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph (6) after “Board” where it appears in head (ii) and at the end of that sub-paragraph insert–

“or the National Waiting Times Centre Board (as the case may be)”; and

(b) in paragraph (7) after “Board” insert–

“or the National Waiting Times Centre Board”.

(5) In regulation 12(1) (reimbursement of payments made in respect of travelling expenses)(5) after “Board” where it first appears in the paragraph insert–

“or the National Waiting Times Centre Board”.

(6) In Table A of the Schedule, in the modification of regulation 45 of the Income Support Regulations, for “£8,000” substitute “£16,000”.

(7) In Table B of the Schedule, in the modification of Schedule 3B to the Income Support Regulations, for “£3,000” substitute “£6,000”.

(1)

Regulation 6 was substituted by S.S.I. 2004/166.

(2)

The National Waiting Times Centre Board is a Special Health Board constituted by S.S.I. 2002/305.

(3)

Regulation 7(4) was substituted by S.S.I. 2004/166.

(4)

Regulation 11 was amended by S.S.I. 2004/166.

(5)

Regulation 12 was amended by S.S.I. 2004/166.