2001 No. 3065
NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND

The National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2001

Made
Laid before Parliament
Coming into force
The Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 83A and 126(4) of the National Health Service Act 19771 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement, interpretation and extent1.

(1)

These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2001.

(2)

These Regulations shall come into force on 1st October 2001.

(3)

In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) Regulations 19882.

(4)

These Regulations extend to England only.

Amendment of regulation 4 of the principal Regulations2.

In regulation 4 of the principal Regulations (description of persons entitled to full remission and payment), there shall be added at the end the following—“or

(p)

a relevant child within the meaning of section 23A of the Children Act 1989 whom a responsible local authority is supporting under section 23B(8) of that Act3

Amendment of regulation 7 of the principal Regulations3.

In paragraph 1(a)(ii) of regulation 7 of the principal Regulations (claims for remission or payment) for “or (o)” substitute “, (o) or (p)”.

Amendment of Schedule 1A to the principal Regulations4.

In Schedule 1A to the principal Regulations (periods of validity of notices of entitlement) after paragraph 9 there shall be added the following entry—

“10.

A relevant child within the meaning of section 23A of the Children Act 1989 whom a responsible local authority is supporting under section 23B(8) of that Act

12 months or until the child’s 18th birthday whichever is longer."”

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health.

John Hutton
Minister of State,
Department of Health
(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations further amend the National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) Regulations 1988 (“the principal Regulations”) which provide for the remission and repayment of certain charges which would otherwise be payable under the National Health Service Act 1977 and for the payment of travelling expenses incurred in attending hospital.

Regulation 2 enables 16 and 17 year old children leaving the care of a local authority (as well as certain other 16 and 17 year old children who have been looked after by a local authority for at least thirteen weeks since they were 14) who are being wholly or partly maintained by a responsible local authority to benefit from full remission of charges and payment of travelling expenses.

Regulation 3 makes consequential amendments.

Regulation 4 provides for the period for which such children will benefit from the full remission of charges and payment of travelling expenses.