(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (No. 2) Regulations 1982 which prescribe charges for some overseas visitors for services forming part of the national health service.
Regulation 2(2) replaces an exemption from charges relating to clinics for sexually transmitted diseases; in particular, the new exemption extends, in the case of treatment relating to a Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), only to testing and associated counselling.
Regulation 2(3) introduces a charge for hospital out-patients for the supply of a drug or medicine designed to treat HIV.