The National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Regulations 2015

Members of the regular and reserve forces, Crown servants and others

20.—(1) No charge may be made or recovered in respect of any relevant services provided to an overseas visitor who is—

(a) a member of the regular or reserve forces within the meaning of the Armed Forces Act 2006(1);

(b) a qualifying employee who is visiting the United Kingdom in the course of the qualifying employment; or

(c) where paragraph (b) does not apply, a qualifying employee who—

(i) was ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom immediately prior to becoming a qualifying employee; or

(ii) where the qualifying employee has been employed in more than one position of qualifying employment, the qualifying employee was ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom immediately prior to taking up one of the positions of qualifying employment.

(2) An overseas visitor will be a “qualifying employee” if the overseas visitor was recruited in the United Kingdom and is—

(a) a Crown servant (other than a person falling within paragraph (1)(a)) employed by, or in the service of, the Government of the United Kingdom;

(b) an employee of the British Council or the Commonwealth War Graves Commission; or

(c) working in employment, whether or not the overseas visitor derives a salary or wage from that employment, that is financed in part by the Government of the United Kingdom in accordance with arrangements with the Government of some other country or territory or a public body in such other country or territory.

(3) In this regulation “qualifying employment” means any period of employment during which the overseas visitor was a qualifying employee.

(1)

2006 c. 52; “the regular forces” and “the reserve forces” are defined in section 374 of the Armed Forces Act 2006 as amended by the Defence Reform Act 2014 (2014 c. 20), section 44(3)(a), (b) and (4).