2002 No. 580

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND

The National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) Amendment Regulations 2002

Made

Laid before Parliament

Coming into force

The Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 83A, 126(4) and 128(1) 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 Regulations 2002 and shall come into force on 8th April 2002.

2

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

3

These Regulations extend to England only.

Amendment of regulation 8 of the principal Regulations2

1

Regulation 8 of the principal Regulations (repayment) shall be amended as follows.

2

Paragraph (4)(a)(iii) shall be omitted.

3

After paragraph (4)(a) there shall be inserted—

aa

in a case falling within regulation 3(3)(d) authorise in writing the repayment of the amount in question to the claimant by the body which made the arrangements referred to in that provision; or

Amendment of Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations3

In Table A of Part I of Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations (modification of provisions of the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987)3 in the entry relating to “regulation 53” for “£11,500” there shall be substituted “£11,750” and for “£18,500” there shall be substituted “£19,000”.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health

Hazel BlearsParliamentary Under Secretary 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 amends regulation 8 of the principal Regulations to set out the arrangements for repayment in respect of expenses incurred in travelling to a port in accordance with regulation 3(3)(d) of the principal Regulations.

Regulation 3 amends Table A of Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations to uprate the capital limits used in remission and repayment calculations relating to people living permanently in residential care or nursing homes. It brings those limits into line with those used by local authorities under the National Assistance Act 1948 to determine such people’s liability to pay for their care.