The National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1987

Made: 9th March 1987

Laid before Parliament: 11th March 1987

Coming into force: 1st April 1987

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 98 and 108(1) of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978[^f00001], and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1

• (1) These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1987 and shall come into force on 1st April 1987.

• (2) In these Regulations “the principal regulations” means the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Scotland) Regulations 1982[^f00002].

Amendment of the principal regulations

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• (1) For Schedule 2 to the principal regulations (daily charges for services provided for overseas visitors as in-patients)[^f00003] there shall be substituted the Schedule set out in Schedule 1 to these Regulations.

• (2) For Schedule 3 to the principal regulations (charges for services provided for overseas visitors otherwise than as in-patients)[^f00004] there shall be substituted the Schedule set out in Schedule 2 to these Regulations.

Revocations

3

Regulations 3 and 4 of, and Schedules 1 and 2 to the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Amendment Regulations 1985[^f00005] are hereby revoked.

SCHEDULE 1 — Schedule to be substituted for Schedule 2 to the principal regulations

SCHEDULE 2 — Schedule to be substituted for Schedule 3 to the principal regulations

Signed

Glenarthur — Minister of State, Scottish Office — 9th March 1987

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Scotland) Regulations 1982 ( “the principal regulations”) by increasing, by an average of 9.6% for in-patients and 6.1% for out-patients, the sums prescribed in Schedules 2 and 3 to the principal regulations as charges to certain overseas visitors for services forming part of the health service. They also alter at item 2 of Schedule 3 to the principal regulations the classification of day cases so as to draw a distinction between those receiving treatment on one day only and those who attend on more than one day as part of a course of regular treatment.

These Regulations also revoke earlier amending regulations which increased prescribed sums.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1978 c. 29; section 108(1) contains a definition of “prescribed” relevant to the exercise of the statutory powers under which these Regulations are made.

[^f00002]: S.I. 1982/898; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1986/516 and 924.

[^f00003]: Schedule 2 was last substituted by S.I. 1986/516.

[^f00004]: Schedule 3 was last substituted by S.I. 1986/516 and amended by S.I. 1986/924.

[^f00005]: S.I. 1985/383.