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

Made: 26th March 2008

Laid before Parliament: 2nd April 2008

Coming into force: 1st May 2008

The Secretary of State for Health makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 182, 183(a), 184(1) and (2) and 272(7) of the National Health Service Act 2006¹.

Citation, commencement, application and interpretation

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• (1) These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (Travel Expenses and Remission of Charges) Amendment Regulations 2008 and shall come into force on 1st May 2008.

• (2) These Regulations apply in relation to England.

• (3) In these Regulations—

• “the Travel Expenses and Remission of Charges Regulations” means the National Health Service (Travel Expenses and Remission of Charges) Regulations 2003²;

• “the Income Support Regulations” means the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987³.

Modifications of the Income Support Regulations in Schedule 1 to the Travel Expenses and Remission of Charges Regulations

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• (1) Schedule 1 to the Travel Expenses and Remission of Charges Regulations (Modifications of Income Support Regulations) is amended as follows.

• (2) In Table A, in the modifications of—

• (a) regulation 45 of the Income Support Regulations, for “£21,500” substitute “£22,250”; and

• (b) regulation 53 of the Income Support Regulations—

• (i) for “£13,000” substitute “£13,500”, and

• (ii) for “£21,500” substitute “£22,250”.

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health

Dawn Primarolo — Minister of Health — Department of Health — 26th March 2008

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations amend the National Health Service (Travel Expenses and Remission of Charges) Regulations 2003 to increase certain of the amounts used as the basis for calculating entitlement to the payment of travel expenses and the remission of charges under those Regulations.

A full regulatory impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as it has no impact on the private and voluntary sectors.

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