The National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2011

Welsh Statutory Instruments

2011 No. 681 (W.100)

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, WALES

The National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2011

Made

8 March 2011

Laid before the National Assembly for Wales

9 March 2011

Coming into force

11 April 2011

The Welsh Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 130, 131, 132 and 203(9) and (10) of the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006(1).

Title, application and commencement

1.—(1) The title of these Regulations is the National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2011.

(2) These Regulations apply in relation to Wales and come into force on 11 April 2011.

Interpretation

2.  In these Regulations, “the 2007 Regulations” (“Rheoliadau 2007”) means the National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) (Wales) Regulations 2007(2).

Amendment to the 2007 Regulations

3.—(1) The 2007 Regulations are amended as follows.

(2) In Column 2 of Table A in Schedule 1 (modifications of the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987), in the modification of regulation 45 (capital limit) for “£22,000” substitute “£22,500”.

Edwina Hart

Minister for Health and Social Services, one of the Welsh Ministers

8 March 2011

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations, which apply in relation to Wales, further amend the National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) (Wales) Regulations 2007 (“the principal Regulations”). Those Regulations provide for the payment of travel expenses to, and the remission of National Health Service (NHS) charges for, amongst others, persons on low incomes, by reference to limits on their income and capital.

In calculating a person’s resources and requirements under the principal Regulations in order to establish whether that person can claim entitlement to the remission of NHS charges and payment of NHS travelling expenses, a modified version of the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987 is applied.

Regulation 3 changes the modification to regulation 45 of the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987 so that the prescribed capital limit is uplifted to £22,500.

(1)

2006 c. 42.

(2)

S.I. 2007/1104 (W.116) as amended by S.I. 2008/1480 (W.153). There are other amendments none of which are relevant to these Regulations.