The National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2003

Amendment of regulation 4 of the principal Regulations

5.—(1) Regulation 4 of the principal Regulations (description of persons entitled to full remission and payment) is amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

(2) For the opening words of regulation 4 substitute the following —

“(1) Regulation 3(1) applies —

(a) in the case of the charges for dental appliances and dental treatment mentioned in regulation 3(2)(b)—

(i) to any person who either, at the time the arrangements for the treatment are made, or at the time the relevant charges are made, is a person described in paragraph (2), and

(ii) as respects the course of treatment to which the relevant charges relate;

(b) in any other case to any person mentioned in paragraph (2) who, at the time when the relevant charges are made or when the relevant travelling expenses are incurred, is a person described in paragraph (2).

(2) The persons described in this paragraph are—”.

(3) In regulation 4(2)—

(a) for sub-paragraph (n) substitute the following sub-paragraph—

“(n) an asylum-seeker for whom support is provided under Part VI of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999; or”;

(b) after sub-paragraph (n) insert the following sub-paragraphs—

“(o) a member of the same family as a person described in paragraph (n) of this regulation; or

(p) a relevant child within the meaning of section 23A of the Children Act 1989(1) whom a responsible local authority is supporting under section 23B(8) of that Act.

(q) a person who is a member of a family—

(i) that has a gross annual income of £14,200; and

(ii) one member of which is receiving—

(aa) working tax credit and child tax credit, or

(bb) working tax credit which includes a disability element, or

(cc) child tax credit, but is not eligible to receive working tax credit.”;

(c) sub-paragraphs (c), (d), (g) and (h) are omitted.

(1)

1989 c. 41. In force as from 1 October 2001 (S.I.2001/2878).