PART 3 U.K.Amendments of subordinate legislation

The National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) Regulations 2015 U.K.

[F1 8.  In regulation 74F (information relating to overseas visitors) of the National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) Regulations 2015—

(a) for paragraph (1)(b) (but not the words following that paragraph) substitute—

“(b) where applicable in the case of a patient, record the fact that the patient is the holder of a document—

(i) which is—

(aa) a European Health Insurance Card;

(bb) an S1 Healthcare Certificate; or

(cc) a document which, for the purposes of a listed healthcare arrangement as defined in regulation 1(3) of the Healthcare (European Economic Area and Switzerland Arrangements) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019, is treated as equivalent to a document referred to in sub-paragraph (aa) (“EHIC equivalent document”) or (bb) (“S1 equivalent document”); and

(ii) which has not been issued to or in respect of the patient by the United Kingdom,”;

(b) in paragraph (2)(a)—

(i) after “European Health Insurance Card” insert “or EHIC equivalent document”;

(ii) after “that card” insert “or document”;

(c) in paragraph (4)—

(i) after “S1 Healthcare Certificate” insert “or S1 equivalent document”;

(ii) after the remaining references to “certificate” (in both places), insert “or document”.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Reg. 8 substituted (31.12.2020 immediately before IP completion day) by The Reciprocal and Cross-Border Healthcare (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1348), regs. 1, 4

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 8 in force at 31.12.2020 on IP completion day (in accordance with 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)), see reg. 1(1)