The National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1989

Made: 6th April 1989

Laid before Parliament: 7th April 1989

Coming into force: 10th April 1989

The Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of powers conferred by section 83A of the National Health Service Act 1977[^f00001] and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1

These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1989 and shall come into force on 10th April 1989 immediately after the coming into force of the National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) Amendment Regulations 1989[^f00002].

Amendment of Regulations

2

In column (2) of Table B in Schedule 1 to the National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) Regulations 1988[^f00003], in the entry relating to paragraph 11 of Schedule 3 to the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987[^f00004] –

• (a) for “£11.20” there shall be substituted “£12.50”;

• (b) for “£6.45” in both places where it occurs there shall be substituted “£7.20”;

• (c) for “£3.00” there shall be substituted “£3.35”.

Signed

Signed by the authority of the Secretary of State for Health.

D. Mellor — Minister of State, — Department of Health — 6th April 1989

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations effect amendments to the National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) Regulations 1988 which provide for the remission and repayment of certain charges which would otherwise be payable under the National Health Service Act 1977 and for payment by the Secretary of State of certain travelling expenses.

They increase the amounts to be deducted, in the calculation of a person’s entitlement to remission or repayment, for housing costs in respect of non-dependants. These amendments are consequential upon the uprating of social security benefits on 10th April 1989.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1977 c. 49; see section 128(1) for the definitions of “prescribed” and “regulations”; section 83A was inserted by section 14(1) of the Social Security Act 1988 (c. 7).

[^f00002]: S.I. 1989/517.

[^f00003]: S.I. 1988/551, amended by S.I. 1989/517.

[^f00004]: S.I. 1987/1967; the relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1988/1445 and S.I. 1989/43.