The National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) (Wales) Regulations 2007

Payment of NHS travelling expenses

9.—(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) to (5), where a person is entitled in accordance with regulation 5 or 6 to a payment in respect of NHS travelling expenses—

(a) he or she must make an application to the provider; and

(b) the provider must calculate the actual amount payable in accordance with these Regulations and make the payment.

(2) Where services are provided pursuant to arrangements made under section 10 of and paragraph 18 of Schedule 3 to the Act, the application for payment may be made to, and the calculation and payment may be made by, either the provider or the health service body which made those arrangements.

(3) In a case falling within regulation 3(1)(b) (travel to a port) the application for payment must be made to, and the calculation and payment must be made by, the health service body which made the arrangements referred to in that provision.

(4) A person who makes an application for payment in respect of NHS travelling expenses must sign a declaration of entitlement and provide such evidence of his or her entitlement and of his or her travelling expenses as the provider, or as the case may be, the health service body which made the arrangements, may require.

(5) Payment of NHS travelling expenses may be made before the expenses are incurred.