The National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) (Wales) Regulations 2007

Entitlement to partial remission and payment

6.—(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), a person is entitled to the payment in part of any NHS travelling expenses and to the remission in part of an NHS charge for relevant dental services provided at the time the travelling expenses are incurred or the charge is made—

(a) his or her capital resources do not exceed the capital limit; and

(b) either—

(i) his or her income resources exceed his or her requirements by less than a third of the charge, or as the case may be, by less than the travelling expenses incurred in any week, or

(ii) he or she is a member of the family of the person described in sub-paragraph (b)(i),

but is required to make a claim for such remission or payment in accordance with regulation 7 (claims to entitlement).

(2) Subject to paragraph (3), the amount to which a person is entitled under paragraph (1) is—

(a) in the case of an NHS charge for relevant dental services, the difference between the charge and three times the amount by which his or her income resources exceed his or her requirements; and

(b) in the case of recoverable travelling expenses, the difference between the amount of the expenses incurred and the amount by which his or her income resources exceed his or her requirements.

(3) In the case of an NHS charge for relevant dental services, the charge which is partially remissible under this regulation, and which must be used for the purposes of the calculation required under paragraph (2)(a), is the charge made—

(a) for one course of treatment or urgent course of treatment, including any charge made for a denture or other dental appliance supplied in that course of treatment; or

(b) for the supply of a denture or other dental appliance under the Act otherwise than as part of relevant primary dental services.