The National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2020

Madeat 3.00 p.m. on 29th January 2020

Laid before the Scottish Parliamentat 4.30 p.m. on 29th January 2020

Coming into force30th January 2020

The Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of powers conferred by sections 98 and 105 of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 19781 and all other powers enabling them to do so.

Citation and commencement1.

(1)

These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2020.

(2)

These Regulations come into force on 30 January 2020.

Amendment of the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Scotland) Regulations 19892.

In schedule 1 (diseases for the treatment of which no charge is to be made) of the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Scotland) Regulations 19892, after “Whooping cough” insert “Wuhan novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV)”.

JEANE FREEMAN

A member of the Scottish Government

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

At 3.00 p.m. on 29th January 2020

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Scotland) Regulations 1989 (S.I. 1989/364) (“the 1989 Regulations”), which provide for the making and recovery of charges for relevant services provided under the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978. Schedule 1 of the 1989 Regulations, as introduced by regulation 3 of the 1989 Regulations, contains a list of diseases for the treatment of which no charge is to be made.

Regulation 2 of these Regulations amends schedule 1 of the 1989 Regulations to include Wuhan novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) as one of the diseases for the treatment of which no charge is to be made.

A full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sector is foreseen.