2008 No. 147
NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE

The National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2008

Made
Laid before the Scottish Parliament
Coming into force
The Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 75A, 105(7) and 108(1) of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 19781 and all other powers enabling them to do so.

Citation and commencement1.

These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2008 and come into force on 6th May 2008.

Amendment of the National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) (Scotland) (No. 2) Regulations 20032.

(1)

The National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) (Scotland) (No. 2) Regulations 20032 are amended as follows.

(2)

In Table A of the Schedule, in entries relating to–

(a)

regulations 45 and 53, for “£21,500”, in each place where it occurs, substitute “£22,250”; and

(b)

regulation 53, for “£13,000” substitute “£13,500”.

KENNY MACASKILL
A member of the Scottish Executive

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) (Scotland) (No. 2) Regulations 2003 (“the Regulations”).

Regulation 2(2) amends the entries in Table A of the Schedule to the Regulations relating to regulations 45 and 53 of the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987 (S.I. 1987/1967) to increase the capital limits to be used in calculating entitlement to the payment of travelling expenses and remission of charges for certain claimants under the Regulations.