2011 No. 449
National Health Service

The National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) (Scotland) (No. 2) Amendment Regulations 2011

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, commencement and interpretation1.

(1)

These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) (Scotland) (No. 2) Amendment Regulations 2011 and come into force on 6th February 2012.

(2)

In these Regulations—

“the 2003 Regulations” means the National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) (Scotland) (No. 2) Regulations 20032.

Amendment of modifications of the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987 for the purpose of Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the 2003 Regulations2.

(1)

Table A of Schedule 1 to the 2003 Regulations is amended as follows.

(2)

In the modifications of regulation 62 (calculation of grant income), in inserted paragraph (2C)(b)—

(a)

for “38 or 39” substitute “38 to 40”;

(b)

for “2009” substitute “2011”; and

(c)

for “46 to 48” substitute “48 to 51”.

MICHAEL MATHESON
Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

EXPLANATORY NOTE
(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 2003 Regulations”).

Regulation 2 updates references to student funding regulations in Wales. These set out the entitlement to grants and loans available to students. Certain amounts of student maintenance grants are disregarded in calculating the entitlement of students to the payment of travel expenses and the remission of charges under the 2003 Regulations.