The National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Amendment) Regulations 2022
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 2022/19 |
| Year | 2022 |
2022 No. 19
National Health Service, England
The National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Amendment) Regulations 2022
Made 10th January 2022
Laid before Parliament 11th January 2022
Coming into force 14th February 2022
The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 175 and 272(7) and (8) of the National Health Service Act 20061.
Citation, commencement and extent
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Amendment) Regulations 2022.
(2) These Regulations come into force on 14th February 2022.
(3) These Regulations extend to England and Wales.
Amendment of the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Regulations 2015
2.—(1) The National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Regulations 20152are amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 7 (charges imposed on overseas visitors)—
(a)
(a) in paragraph (5)—
(i) for “Unless paragraph (6) applies, where” substitute “Where”;
(ii) omit “in relation to that relevant body”;
(b)
(b) for paragraph (8) substitute—
“
8 Where a relevant service is not specified in the national tariff under section 116(1)(a) of the 2012 Act and—
(a) the rules specified in the national tariff under section 116(4)(b) of that Act make provision for a unit price to be used as the basis for determining the price payable for that service (even if only in certain circumstances specified in the rules), the tariff is such price as would be determined for that service in accordance with those rules on the basis of that unit price;
(b) where paragraph (6) and sub-paragraph (a) of this paragraph do not apply, the tariff for the provision of that service is such price as is determined in accordance with the rules specified in the national tariff under section 116(4)(b) of the 2012 Act.
”;
(c)
(c) in paragraph (11)(a) omit “or (8) (whichever is applicable)”;
(d)
(d) in paragraph (11)(b) after “the rules” insert “specified in the national tariff under section 116(4)(b) of the 2012 Act”;
(e)
(e) in paragraph (13) omit the definition of “the rules”.
(3) In regulation 24 (treatment the need for which arose during the visit)—
(a)
(a) number the current text in regulation 24 as paragraph (1);
(b)
(b) after the newly numbered paragraph (1) insert—
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