Visitors exempt from charges - human traffickingN.I.
10.—(1) No charge may be made or recovered in respect of any services forming part of health services provided to a visitor, where the competent authorities—
(a)consider there are reasonable grounds to believe that person is a victim within the meaning of Article 4 of the Convention, and the recovery and reflection period in relation to that person under Article 13 of the Convention has not yet expired; or
(b)have identified that person as a victim within the meaning of Article 4 of the Convention.
(2) In this regulation “the competent authorities” means the competent authorities of the United Kingdom for the purposes of the Convention, and “the Convention” means the Council of Europe Convention on Action Against Trafficking in Human Beings M1.
Marginal Citations
M1Cmd 7465. The Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings 2005 (CETS No. 197) was opened for signature in Warsaw on 16th May 2005