The National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1990

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations which come into force on 1st April 1990 further amend the National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) (Scotland) Regulations 1988 (“the principal Regulations”) which provide for the remission and repayment of certain charges which would otherwise be payable under the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 and for the payment by the Secretary of State of certain travelling expenses.

With the exception of regulations 2 (which amends the interpretation provision of the principal Regulations, in particular to insert a definition of “partner”) and 3 (which makes minor amendments to the principal Regulations), these Regulations amend Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations which specifies the manner in which a person’s requirements and resources are to be calculated for the purposes of calculating entitlement under the Regulations. Table 2 in Part I of that Schedule is amended to make further modifications to those provisions of the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987 by reference to which a person’s resources are calculated (regulation 4). Regulation 5 replaces Part II of that Schedule to effect amendments, in particular, in consequence of the introduction of the community charge and the abolition of domestic rates in England and Wales from 1st April 1990, and to make special provision for the calculation of the requirements of persons under the age of 18 (regulation 2(4), (5) and (6)). The Regulations also effect certain minor and consequential amendments in Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations.

Regulation 6 revokes earlier Regulations which amended the principal Regulations.