The Health Services (Cross-Border Health Care and Miscellaneous Amendments) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

Health and Personal Social Services General Dental Services Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1993

14.—(1) In any relevant period, Schedule 2 to the Health and Personal Social Services General Dental Services Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1993 has effect—

(a) as if the revocations made by regulation 3(2)(b) and (3) of these regulations had not been made, and

(b) as if, in the definition of “visiting patient” in regulation 2 of those Regulations, for the words from “an individual” to the end there were substituted a reference to an individual who is a relevant patient in that period.

(2) In this regulation a “relevant period” means a period for which, according to the list maintained by the Secretary of State under regulation 16 of the National Health Service (Cross-Border Healthcare and Miscellaneous Amendments etc) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019, any cross-border arrangements have effect.

(3) For the purposes of this regulation an individual is a “relevant patient” in any relevant period if the individual is from an EEA state and, according to that list, cross-border arrangements with that EEA state have effect in that period.

(4) In this regulation “cross-border arrangements” means arrangements between the United Kingdom and an EEA state that concern cross-border healthcare within the meaning of regulation 16 of the National Health Service (Cross-Border Healthcare and Miscellaneous Amendments etc) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019.