The National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1988

Made: 8th March 1988

Laid before Parliament: 11th March 1988

Coming into force: 1st April 1988

The Secretary of State for Social Services, in exercise of powers conferred on him by section 121 of the National Health Service Act 1977[^f00001] and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:—

Citation, commencement and interpretation

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• (1) These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1988 and shall come into force on 1st April 1988.

• (2) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (No. 2) Regulations 1982[^f00002].

Amendment of principal Regulations

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• (1) The principal Regulations shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraphs of this regulation.

• (2) In regulation 2—

• (a) for paragraph (3) there shall be substituted the following—

(3) Where the services forming part of the health service are provided for an overseas visitor, otherwise than as an in-patient of a health service hospital, at, or by staff employed to work at or under the direction of a hospital of any class, there shall be made and recovered, in respect of each occasion on which such services are provided, a charge the amount of which shall be— (a) except where it falls to be determined under sub-paragraph (b) below, the sum specified in the column of Schedule 3 covering the class of hospital in which that hospital is included opposite the entry in Column 1 of that Schedule which relates to the services provided; (b) in the case of the procedures to which paragraph 5(i) of Schedule 3 relates, the sum determined by multiplying the number of unit values, specified in Schedule 4 for the group into which the relevant procedure falls, by the appropriate unit charge specified against paragraph 5(i) in the column of Schedule 3 covering the class of hospital in which that hospital is included.

• (b) After paragraph (4) there shall be added the following paragraph—

(5) For the purposes of paragraph (2) and Schedule 2, a “single room” means a room used for the accommodation of one patient only, such room having a floor area of not less than 10 square metres (or 8 square metres where a room is for the accommodation of a child under the age of 10 years) and being completely enclosed by walls or partitions and doors and having been decorated within the previous 7 years.

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

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

• (5) For Schedule 4 (units of cost value for purpose of determining charges for radiodiagnosis examination procedures) there shall be substituted the Schedule set out as Schedule 3 to these Regulations.

Revocations

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The following Regulations are hereby revoked:—

• (a) The National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Amendment Regulations 1983[^f00003], regulations 2 and 5;

• (b) The National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Amendment Regulations 1987[^f00004], regulation 2(3) and (4) and Schedules 1 and 2;

• (c) The National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Amendment Regulations 1988[^f00005], regulation 2(3).

SCHEDULE 1 — SCHEDULE 2 TO THE PRINCIPAL REGULATIONS AS SUBSTITUTED BY THESE REGULATIONS

SCHEDULE 2 — SCHEDULE 3 TO THE PRINCIPAL REGULATIONS AS SUBSTITUTED BY THESE REGULATIONS

SCHEDULE 3 — SCHEDULE 4 TO THE PRINCIPAL REGULATIONS AS SUBSTITUTED BY THESE REGULATIONS

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Services.

Tony Newton — Minister of State, — Department of Health and Social Security — 8th March 1988

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations further amend the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (No. 2) Regulations 1982, their main effect being to increase the sums prescribed for charges to certain overseas visitors for services forming part of the health service.

Regulation 2 substitutes new Schedules of charges for overseas visitors, both as in-patients (the new Schedule 2) and otherwise (the new Schedule 3).

Regulation 2(5) substitutes a new Schedule 4 to the principal Regulations, by which radiological procedures are no longer allocated individual unit values. They are classified into six groups instead and unit values are specified for each group in ascending order. There is a higher charge per unit value for the first six units than for subsequent units.

Regulation 3 makes consequential revocations.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1977 c. 49; see section 128(1) for the definitions of “prescribed” and “regulations”.

[^f00002]: S.I. 1982/863; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1983/302, 1984/300, 1987/371, and 1988/8.

[^f00003]: S.I. 1983/302.

[^f00004]: S.I. 1987/371.

[^f00005]: S.I. 1988/8.