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The National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Regulations 2011
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- 2011 No. 1556
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Overseas visitors exempt from charges - exceptional humanitarian reasons
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13.—(1) Where an overseas visitor who has been granted leave to enter the United Kingdom for a course of treatment applies (or someone on his behalf applies) for exemption from charges for relevant services, and the Secretary of State determines that exceptional humanitarian reasons justify it, then no charge may be made or recovered in respect of that overseas visitor and that course of treatment.
(2) Such a determination may only be made by the Secretary of State if the Secretary of State is satisfied in the case of that overseas visitor that—
(a)the treatment specified is not available in that person’s home country;
(b)the necessary arrangements have been made for temporary accommodation for that person, any authorised companion and any authorised child for the duration of the course of treatment; and
(c)the necessary arrangements have been made for the return of that person, any authorised companion and any authorised child to their home country when the course of treatment is completed.
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