National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2001
Citation, commencement, interpretation and application1.
(1)
These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2001, and shall come into force on 1st April 2001, except regulation 3 which shall come into force on 10th April 2001.
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These Regulations apply to Wales only.
Amendment of regulation 2 of the principal Regulations2.
““capital limit” means the amount prescribed for the purposes of section 134 (1) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 19923 as it applies to income support except, in the case of a claimant who lives permanently in a residential care or nursing home or in accommodation provided by a local authority under sections 21 to 24 and 26 of the National Assistance Act 19484 (provision of accommodation), where it means the amount prescribed for the purposes of regulation 20 of The National Assistance (Assessment of Resources) Regulations 19925.”
Amendment of regulation 4 of the principal Regulations3.
In paragraphs (c) and (g) of regulation 4 of the principal Regulations (description of persons entitled to full remission and payment) for “£70” there shall be substituted “£71”.
Amendment of regulation 7 of the principal Regulations4.
(1)
Regulation 7 of the principal Regulations shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions .
(2)
“(b)
provide any declaration of entitlement required under regulation 3(3) or 4(3) or any declaration or evidence of entitlement required under regulation 5(3), 6(3) or 7(3) of the National Health Service (Charges for Drugs and Appliances) (Wales) Regulations 20016)”
Amendment of Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations5.
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“regulation 53 As if in paragraph (3) the reference to regulation 60 were a reference to regulation 25.
As if in paragraph (1A) for “£10,000” on each occasion it appears there were substituted “£11,500” and as if for “£16,000” there were substituted “£18,500”.”
These Regulations further amend the National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) Regulations 1988 (“the principal Regulations”) which provide for the remission of National Health Service charges and for the payment of travelling expenses in certain cases.
Regulation 2 substitutes a new definition of “capital limit” in regulation 2(1) of the principal Regulations which provides, by way of exception, for a different capital limit for a claimant who is permanently resident in a residential care or nursing home or in accommodation provided by a local authority under the provisions of the National Assistance Act 1948.
Regulation 3 provides for an increase in the figure for an amount withdrawn, from £70 to £71,for persons who are in receipt of working families' tax credit or disabled person’s tax credit.
Regulation 4 substitutes a new paragraph (1)(b) in regulation 7 of the principal Regulations.
Regulation 5 amends Schedule 1 by substituting a new entry for regulation 53 in the relevant place in Part I, Table A (modification of provisions of the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987) with the effect that the two figures referred to in paragraph (1A) of regulation 53 are increased from £10,000 to £11, 500 and from £16,000 to £18,500.