PART 2Cross-border health care
CHAPTER 3Savings
Health and Personal Social Services General Dental Services Regulations (Northern Ireland) 199314
1
In any relevant period, Schedule 2 to the Health and Personal Social Services General Dental Services Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1993 has effect—
a
as if the revocations made by regulation 3(2)(b) and (3) of these regulations had not been made, and
b
as if, in the definition of “visiting patient” in regulation 2 of those Regulations, for the words from “an individual” to the end there were substituted a reference to an individual who is a relevant patient in that period.
2
In this regulation a “relevant period” means a period for which, according to the list maintained by the Secretary of State under regulation 16 of the National Health Service (Cross-Border Healthcare and Miscellaneous Amendments etc) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019, any cross-border arrangements have effect.
3
For the purposes of this regulation an individual is a “relevant patient” in any relevant period if the individual is from an EEA state and, according to that list, cross-border arrangements with that EEA state have effect in that period.
4
In this regulation “cross-border arrangements” means arrangements between the United Kingdom and an EEA state that concern cross-border healthcare within the meaning of regulation 16 of the National Health Service (Cross-Border Healthcare and Miscellaneous Amendments etc) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019.