Provision of Health Services to Persons not Ordinarily Resident Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005

Made: 8th December 2005

Coming into operation: 10th January 2006

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Citation and commencement

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Interpretation

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Visitors to whom services forming part of health services shall be available

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Services exempted from charges

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Exemption from charges during long term visits by United Kingdom pensioners

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Exemption from charges for treatment the need for which arose during the visit

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Exemption from charges for treatment provided to a member of the forces of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisations

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Transitional provisions

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Revocation

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SCHEDULE 1 — DISEASES FOR THE TREATMENT OF WHICH NO CHARGE IS TO BE MADE

Notifiable Diseases

• Public Health Act (Northern Ireland) 1967

• Public Health Notifiable Diseases Order (Northern Ireland) 1990

• Acute encephalitis/meningitis: bacterial

• Acute encephalitis/meningitis: viral

• Meningococcol septicaemia

• Anthrax

• Chickenpox

• Cholera

• Diphtheria

• Dysentery

• Food poisoning

• Gastro-enteritis (persons under 2 years of age only)

• Hepatitis A

• Hepatitis B

• Hepatitis unspecified: viral

• Legionnaire’s disease

• Leptospirosis

• Malaria

• Measles

• Mumps

• Pandemic influenza (influenza caused by a new virus subtype that has an increased and sustained transmission during a global outbreak of influenza).

• Parathyphoid fever

• Plague

• Poliomyelitis: acute

• Rabies

• Relapsing fever

• Rubella

• Scarlet Fever

• Smallpox

• Tetanus

• Tuberculosis: pulmonary and non-pulmonary

• Typhoid fever

• Typhus

• Viral haemorrhagic fevers

• Whooping cough

• Yellow fever

SCHEDULE 2 — COUNTRIES OR TERRITORIES IN RESPECT OF WHICH THE UNITED KINGDOM GOVERNMENT HAS ENTERED INTO A RECIPROCAL AGREEMENT

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Signed

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety on 8 December 2005

N Carson — A senior officer of the — Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Finance and Personnel on 8 December 2005

M McIvor — A senior officer of the — Department of Finance and Personnel

Explanatory note

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Footnotes

[^f00001]: See S.I. 1999/283 (N.I. 1) - Article 3(6).

[^f00002]: S.I. 1972/1265 (N.I. 14); to which there are amendments not relevant to the subject matter of these regulations.

[^f00003]: 1992 c. 7

[^f00004]: 1992 c. 4

[^f00005]: 1964 c. 29

[^f00006]: SeeArticle 1(f) of Council Regulation No. 1408/71, OJ No. L149/2, 5.7.71 (OJ/SE 1971 (II) p.416) and Council Regulation No. 1390/81, OJ No. 143, 12.5.81

[^f00007]: See the European Economic Area Act 1993 (c. 51)

[^f00008]: Cmnd. 9171 of 1954

[^f00009]: Cmnd. 3906 of 1968

[^f00010]: S.I. 1988/2249 (N.I. 24)

[^f00011]: S.I. 1991/194 (N.I. 1)

[^f00012]: Cmnd. 1098 of 1960

[^f00013]: 1968 c. 46

[^f00014]: S.R. 1979 No. 242, as amended by S.R. 1980 No. 451

[^f00015]: 1964 c. 81

[^f00016]: 1953 c. 18 (N.I.)

[^f00017]: 1968 c. 29 (N.I.)

[^f00018]: S. I. 1998/1504 (N.I. 9)

[^f00019]: 1971 c. 77

[^f00020]: See Cmnd. 1667. The European Social Charter was opened for signature at Turin on 18 October 1961, and entered into force on 26 February 1965. Copies of Cmnd. 1667, which is out of print, can be obtained via Her Majesty’s Stationery Office (photocopies) from the British Library Lending Division

[^f00021]: S.I. 1986/595 (N.I. 14)

[^f00022]: S.I. 1996/3160 (N.I. 24)

[^f00023]: 1992 c. 7

[^f00024]: 1992 c. 4

[^f00025]: Cmnd. 9152 of 1955

[^f00026]: Cmnd. 9363 of 1955 and Cmnd. 2191 of 1963

[^f00028]: 1967 c. 36 (N.I.)

[^f00029]: S.R. 1990 No. 66

Editorial notes

Exemption from charges for exceptional humanitarian reasons

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Revocation

2A

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Visitors exempt from charges

Services exempted from charges

Exemption from charges during long term visits by United Kingdom pensioners

Exemption from charges for treatment the need for which arose during the visit

Exemption from charges for treatment provided to a member of the forces of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisations

Transitional provisions

Exemption from charges for exceptional humanitarian reasons

General health services available to visiting patients under Directive 2011/24/EU

8B

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Revocation