2012 No. 171
National Health Service

The National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) (Scotland) (No. 2) Amendment Regulations 2012

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 2012 and come into force on 1st September 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 the Schedule to the 2003 Regulations2.

(1)

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

(2)

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

“(b)

any sum by way of maintenance grant available to a student under regulations 39 to 41 of the Assembly Learning Grants and Loans (Higher Education) (Wales) (No. 2) Regulations 20113 which is not taken into account in the calculation of the maximum amount of a loan for living costs under regulations 49 to 52 of those Regulations; and”.
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.