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Regulation 3 provides for an increase in the figure for an amount withdrawn, from £70 to £71,for persons who are in receipt of working families' tax credit or disabled person’s tax credit.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.