The National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2010

Made: 4th

Laid before the Scottish Parliament: 5th

Coming into force: 6th

The Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections75A, 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 2010 and come into force on 6thApril 2010.

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 column2 of TableA of the Schedule—

• (a) in the entry relating to regulation45, for “£23,000” substitute “£23,250”; and

• (b) in the entry relating to regulation53—

• (i) for “£14,000” substitute “£14,250”; and

• (ii) for “£23,000” substitute “£23,250”.

Signed

SHONA ROBISON — Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers — 4th March 2010

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

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

Regulation2(2) amends the entries in TableA of the Schedule to the Regulations relating to regulations45 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 remission of charges and/or payment of travelling expenses for certain claimants under the Regulations.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1978 c.29. Section75A was inserted by the Social Security Act 1988 (c.7), section14(2) and amended by the Health and Medicines Act 1988 (c.49), Schedule2, paragraph13, the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c.19), Schedule9, paragraph19(13), the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997 (c.46), Schedule2, PartI, paragraphs32 and 50, the National Health Service Reform (Scotland) Act 2004 (asp7), Schedule1, paragraph1 and by S.I.1998/2385; section105(7) was amended by the Health Services Act 1980 (c.53), Schedule6, paragraph5(1) and Schedule7, the Health and Social Services and Social Security Adjudications Act 1983 (c.41), Schedule9, PartI, paragraph24 and the Health Act 1999 (c.8), Schedule4, paragraph60; section108(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 section53 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, 2007/225, 259 and 391, 2008/27, 147, 288 and 390 and 2009/124. S.S.I. 2006/142 was revoked by S.S.I. 2006/183.