PART IIIE+W+SPAYMENTS AND REPAYMENTS

Payment and repayment of NHS foreign travel expensesE+W+S

14.—(1) [F1Subject to paragraph (1A), a] person who wishes to claim entitlement to payment or repayment for NHS foreign travel expenses must apply in writing to the health service body [F2or the arranger of ICP services] which arranged the services referred to in regulation 3(2) within 3 months of the expenses having been incurred or such further period as that body may for good cause allow.

[F3(1A) A person who wishes to claim entitlement to payment or repayment of NHS foreign travel expenses, where the services in question are provided pursuant to arrangements made under the 2006 Act by a local authority [F4(including as an arranger of ICP services)], must apply in writing to the relevant [F5integrated care board] within 3 months of the expenses having been incurred or such further period as the relevant [F5integrated care board] may for good cause allow.]

[F6(2) Paragraphs (2) to (4) of regulation 7 apply to a claim (whether for payment or repayment) made under this regulation as if the references to the Secretary of State in those paragraphs were—

(a)in the case of a claim made under paragraph (1), references to the health service body [F7or the arranger of ICP services] which arranged the services referred to in regulation 3(2); or

(b)in the case of a claim made under paragraph (1A), references to the relevant [F5integrated care board].]

[F8(3) In this regulation, “relevant [F5integrated care board]” means the [F5integrated care board] in whose area the claimant was usually resident at the time the claim was made. ]

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