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7. After regulation 5 insert—
5A. No charge may be made or recovered for services forming part of the health service provided only for the purpose of giving treatment the need for which arose during the visit in respect of an overseas visitor who is ordinarily resident in the Republic of Ireland and who is—
(a)an Irish citizen, or
(b)a British citizen.
5B.—(1) No charge may be made or recovered for services forming part of the health service provided only for the purpose of giving treatment the need for which arose during the visit in respect of an overseas visitor who is a relevant frontier worker.
(2) In paragraph (1) “a relevant frontier worker” means a person who—
(a)is pursuing in the United Kingdom an activity as an employed or self-employed person which the person began to pursue there before exit day,
(b)resides in an EEA State or Switzerland, and
(c)returns to their residence in that EEA State or Switzerland (as the case may be) at least once a week.
5C.—(1) This regulation applies only where regulation 4B (reciprocal arrangements with EEA States) does not apply.
(2) No charge may be made or recovered for services forming part of the health service provided only for the purpose of giving treatment, the need for which arose during the visit, in respect of an overseas visitor described in paragraph (3).
(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2) an overseas visitor is a person who is resident in an EEA State and, at the time that the treatment which constitutes the service is provided—
(a)holds a European Health Insurance card issued by the competent institution of an EEA State or Switzerland,
(b)holds a Provisional Replacement Certificate issued by the competent institution of an EEA State or Switzerland, or
(c)would have been eligible to be issued with a European Health Insurance Card by the United Kingdom if exit day had not occurred.”.
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