The National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Scotland) Amendment (No.2) Regulations 1988

Made: 10th March 1988

Laid before Parliament: 11th March 1988

Coming into force: 1st April 1988

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 98 and 108(1) of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978[^f00001], and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

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• (1) These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Scotland) Amendment (No.2) Regulations 1988 and shall come into force on 1st April 1988.

• (2) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Scotland) Regulations 1982[^f00002].

Amendment of the principal Regulations

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In regulation 2 of the principal Regulations (charges for services forming part of the health service)—

• (a) for paragraph (3)[^f00003]there shall be substituted the following:—

(3) Where the services forming part of the health service are provided for an overseas visitor, otherwise than as an in-patient of a health service hospital, at, or by staff employed to work at or under the direction of, a hospital, there shall be made and recovered, in respect of each occasion on which such services are provided, a charge the amount of which shall be— (a) except where it falls to be determined under sub-paragraph (b) below, the sum specified in Column (2) of Schedule 3 opposite the entry in Column (1) of that Schedule which relates to the services provided; (b) in the case of the procedures to which paragraph 5(i) of Schedule 3 relates, the sum determined by multiplying the number of unit values specified in Schedule 4 for the group into which the relevant procedure falls, by the appropriate unit charge specified opposite paragraph 5(i) of Schedule 3.

• (b) after paragraph (4) there shall be inserted the following paragraph:—

(5) For purposes of paragraph (2) and Schedule 2, a “single room” means a room used for the accommodation of one patient only, such room having a floor area of not less than 10 square metres (or 8 square metres where a room is for the accommodation of a child under the age of 10 years) and being completely enclosed by walls or partitions and doors, and having been decorated within the previous 7 years.

3

• (1) For Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations (daily charges for services provided for overseas visitors as in-patients)[^f00004]there shall be substituted the Schedule set out in Schedule 1 to these Regulations.

• (2) For Schedule 3 to the principal Regulations (charges for services provided for overseas visitors otherwise than as in-patients)[^f00005]there shall be substituted the Schedule set out in Schedule 2 to these Regulations.

• (3) For Schedule 4 to the principal Regulations (unit values for purpose of determining charges for radiological procedures)[^f00006]there shall be substituted the Schedule set out in Schedule 3 to these Regulations.

Revocations

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Regulations 2 and 5 of the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1983[^f00007], the whole of the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1986[^f00008], and regulation 3 of the National Health Services (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Scotland) Amendment (No 2) Regulations 1986[^f00009]are hereby revoked.

SCHEDULE 1 — Schedule to be substituted for Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations

SCHEDULE 2 — Schedule to be substituted for Schedule 3 to the principal Regulations

SCHEDULE 3 — Schedule to be substituted for Schedule 4 to the principal Regulations

Signed

Michael B Forsyth — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office — 10th March 1988

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations further amend the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Scotland) Regulations 1982 (“the principal Regulations”), their main effect being to increase the sums prescribed for charges to certain overseas visitors for services forming part of the health service.

Regulation 3 substitutes in the principal Regulations a new Schedule 2 of charges for in-patient overseas visitors, and a new Schedule 3 of charges for out-patient overseas visitors.

Regulation 3 also substitutes a new Schedule 4 to the principal Regulations which classifies radiological procedures into six groups with unit values specified for each group in ascending order. Such procedures are thus no longer allocated individual unit values. There is a higher charge per unit value for the first six units of each procedure than for subsequent units.

Regulation 2(b) inserts a definition of “single room” and regulation 4 makes consequential revocations.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1978 c. 29; see section 108(1) for definitions of “prescribed” and “regulations”.

[^f00002]: S.I. 1982/898; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1983/362, 1986/516, 1987/387 and 1988/13

[^f00003]: Regulation 2(3) was substituted by S.I. 1983/362 and amended by S.I. 1986/516

[^f00004]: Schedule 2 was last substituted by S.I. 1987/387

[^f00005]: Schedule 3 was last substituted by S.I. 1987/387 and amended by S.I. 1988/13

[^f00006]: Schedule 4 was amended by S.I. 1983/362

[^f00007]: S.I. 1983/362

[^f00008]: S.I. 1986/516

[^f00009]: S.I. 1986/924