Amendment of the National Health Service (Licence Exemptions, etc.) Regulations 2013
2.—(1) The National Health Service (Licence Exemptions, etc.) Regulations 2013(1) are amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 1 (citation, commencement and interpretation), in paragraph (2), for the definition of “applicable turnover” substitute —
““applicable turnover” means the amounts, calculated in conformity with accounting practices and principles that are generally accepted in England, which are derived by a person from the provision of health care services for the purposes of the NHS(2), after deduction of any of the following—
trade discounts, value added tax and other taxes based on such amounts, and
turnover from providing medical services under Part 4 of the 2006 Act, dental services under Part 5 of that Act, NHS Continuing Healthcare and NHS funded nursing care;”.
(3) In regulation 6 (exemption from the requirement to hold a licence: NHS Continuing Healthcare and NHS funded nursing care), omit paragraph (2).
See section 64(3), (4) and (5) of the 2012 Act for the meaning of “health care”, “the NHS” and the provision of health care services for the purposes of the NHS.