2012 No. 800 (W.109)
NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, WALES

The National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2012

Made
Laid before the National Assembly for Wales
Coming into force
The Welsh Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 130, 131, 132 and 203(9) and (10) of the National Health Service (Wales) Act 20061.

Title, application and commencement1.

(1)

The title of these Regulations is the National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2012.

(2)

These Regulations apply in relation to Wales and come into force on 9 April 2012.

Interpretation2.

In these Regulations, “the 2007 Regulations” (“Rheoliadau 2007”) means the National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) (Wales) Regulations 20072.

Amendment to the 2007 Regulations3.

(1)

The 2007 Regulations are amended as follows.

(2)

In Column 2 of Table A in Schedule 1 (modifications of the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987), in the modification of regulation 45 (capital limit) for “£22,500” substitute “£23,250”.

Lesley Griffiths
Minister for Health and Social Services, one of the Welsh Ministers
(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations, which apply in relation to Wales, further amend the National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) (Wales) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/1104 (W.116)) (“the 2007 Regulations”). Those Regulations provide for the payment of travel expenses to, and the remission of National Health Service (NHS) charges for, amongst others, persons on low incomes, by reference to limits on their income and capital.

In calculating a person’s resources and requirements under the 2007 Regulations in order to establish whether that person can claim entitlement to the remission of NHS charges and payment of NHS travelling expenses, a modified version of the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987 is applied.

Regulation 3 changes the modification to regulation 45 of the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987 so that the prescribed capital limit is uplifted to £23,250 from 9 April 2012.

The Welsh Ministers' Code of Practice on the carrying out of Regulatory Impact Assessments was considered in relation to these Regulations. As a result, it was not considered necessary to carry out a regulatory impact assessment as to the likely costs and benefits of complying with these Regulations.