Transitional provision relating to the 2007 Regulations
8.—(1) This regulation applies where, before 1 April 2017, NHS travel expenses are incurred or an NHS charge is paid and—
(a)immediately before that date, a person was entitled to payment in full of NHS travel expenses or to the full remission of an NHS charge by virtue of regulation 5 of the 2007 Regulations (entitlement to full remission and payment); and
(b)but for the application of this regulation, that person’s entitlement would cease by virtue of the amendments made to regulation 5 of those Regulations by regulation 5 of these Regulations.
(2) Where this regulation applies, regulation 5 of the 2007 Regulations continues to have effect as if the amendments made by regulation 5 of these Regulations had not come into force.