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

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations further amend the National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) Regulations 1988 (“the 1988 Regulations”) which provide for the remission and repayment of certain charges which would otherwise be payable under the National Health Service Act 1977 and for the payment by the Secretary of State of certain travelling expenses.

With the exception of paragraph (2) (which amends the interpretation provision of the 1988 Regulations, in particular to insert a definition of “partner”), regulation 2 amends Schedule 1 to the 1988 Regulations which governs the manner in which a person’s requirements and resources are to be calculated for the purposes of the Regulations. Table A 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 computed (regulation 2(3)). Paragraph 3 and Table B in Part II of that Schedule are amended 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)). Regulation 2 also effects certain minor and consequential amendments in Tables A and B in Schedule 1 to the 1988 Regulations.