2011 No. 1587

National Health Service, England

The National Health Service (Travel Expenses and Remission of Charges) Amendment Regulations 2011

Made

Laid before Parliament

Coming into force

The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 182, 183, 184 and 272(7) of the National Health Service Act 20061.

Citation and commencement1

These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (Travel Expenses and Remission of Charges) Amendment Regulations 2011 and shall come into force on 1st August 2011.

Modifications of the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987 in Schedule 1 to the National Health Service (Travel Expenses and Remission of Charges) Regulations 20032

1

Table A in Schedule 1 to the National Health Service (Travel Expenses and Remission of Charges) Regulations 20032 (Modifications of the Income Support (General) Regulations 19873) is amended as follows.

2

In the modifications of regulation 62 (calculation of grant income)—

a

in the substitute paragraph (2C)(b)4—

i

for “regulations 38 or 39 of the Assembly Learning Grants and Loans (Higher Education) (Wales) Regulations 2009” substitute “regulations 38 to 40 of the Assembly Learning Grants and Loans (Higher Education) (Wales) Regulations 20115”, and

ii

for “regulations 46 to 48” substitute “regulations 48 to 51”; and

b

in the substitute paragraph (2C)(c) for “Education (Student Support) (No.2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009” substitute “Education (Student Support) (No.2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 20096”.

3

In the modifications of regulation 66A (treatment of student loans), in the substitute paragraph (1)(b), for “Student Support Information Guide 2010-11” substitute “Student Support Information Guide 2011-127”.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health.

Earl HoweParliamentary Under-Secretary of State,Department of Health
EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the National Health Service (Travel Expenses and Remission of Charges) Regulations 2003 (“the Travel Expenses and Remission of Charges Regulations”).

Regulation 2(2) updates references to student funding regulations in Wales. These set out the entitlement to grants and loans available to students. Certain of the 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 Travel Expenses and Remission of Charges Regulations. It also inserts a new reference to the relevant student funding regulations in Northern Ireland in order that they can be correctly footnoted, as they were incorrectly footnoted when the reference was inserted by S.I. 2010/1727.

Regulation 2(3) updates the reference to the publication which describes additional loans paid under the Education (Student Loans) (Scotland) Regulations 2007. These loans are disregarded in the calculation of a student’s loan income when a person’s entitlement to the payment of NHS travel expenses and the remission of NHS charges is being established under the Travel Expenses and Remission of Charges Regulations.