The National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2008

Made: 11th April 2008

Laid before the Scottish Parliament: 14th April 2008

Coming into force: 6th May 2008

The Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 75A, 105(7) and 108(1) of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978[^f00001] and all other powers enabling them to do so.

Citation and commencement

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These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2008 and come into force on 6th May 2008.

Amendment of the National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) (Scotland) (No. 2) Regulations 2003

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• (1) The National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) (Scotland) (No. 2) Regulations 2003[^f00002] are amended as follows.

• (2) In Table A of the Schedule, in entries relating to–

• (a) regulations 45 and 53, for “£21,500”, in each place where it occurs, substitute “£22,250”; and

• (b) regulation 53, for “£13,000” substitute “£13,500”.

Signed

KENNY MACASKILL — A member of the Scottish Executive — 11th April 2008

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) (Scotland) (No. 2) Regulations 2003 (“the Regulations”).

Regulation 2(2) amends the entries in Table A of the Schedule to the Regulations relating to regulations 45 and 53 of the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987 (S.I. 1987/1967) to increase the capital limits to be used in calculating entitlement to the payment of travelling expenses and remission of charges for certain claimants under the Regulations.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1978 c. 29; Section 75A was inserted by the Social Security Act 1988 (c. 7), section 14(2), and amended by the Health and Medicines Act 1988 (c. 49), Schedule 2, paragraph 13, the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 19type=start time=12120528821489type=end time=12120528821487 (c. 46), Schedule 2, Part I, paragraphs 32 and 50, and the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19), Schedule 9, paragraph 19(13), and by S.I. 1998/2385; section 105(7) was amended by the Health Services Act 1980 (c. 53), Schedule 6, paragraph 5, and Schedule 7, by the Health and Social Services and Social Security Adjudications Act 1983 (c. 41), type=start time=1212052996571Part 1 of type=end time=1212052996571Schedule 9, paragraph 24, and by the Health Act 1999 (c. 8), Schedule 4, paragraph 60; section 108(1) contains definitions of “prescribed” and “regulations” relevant to the exercise of the statutory powers under which these Regulations are made. The functions of the Secretary of State were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46).

[^f00002]: S.S.I. 2003/460; amended by S.S.I. 2004/102 and 166, 2005/3 and 179, 2006/142, 183 and 440 and 2007/225, 259 and 391 and 2008/27.