Article 45 Travelling expenses of patients, etc.

Northern Ireland

(1)

The Ministry may, by regulations, provide for the paymentF1 by the Department or an F2HSC trust in accordance with prescribed scales and in such circumstances as may be prescribed, of the whole or part of any travelling or other out-of-pocket expenses necessarily incurred—

F3(a)

by any person of a prescribed description for the purpose of availing himself of—

(i)

such services under this Order, the 1991 Order or the 2009 Act as may be prescribed;

F4(ii)

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F5(iii)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(b)

by any person accompanying such person as is mentioned in paragraph ( a);

(c)

by any relativeF6 being a person of a prescribed description, visiting a person availing himself of services under this Order F7or the 2009 Act.

and such regulations may provide for the reimbursement by the Department to an HSC trust of payments made by the trust by virtue of this paragraph.

(2)

Paragraph 1B of Schedule 15 (powers to prescribe descriptions of persons) shall have effect in relation to paragraph (1) as it has effect in relation to paragraph 1(b) of that Schedule.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: 1991 NI 1
F2: Words in Order substituted (1.4.2009) by Health and Social Care (Reform) Act (Northern Ireland) 2009 (c. 1), s. 34(3), Sch. 6 para. 1(1)(d); S.R. 2009/114, art. 2
F3: Art. 45(1)(a) substituted (10.5.2012) by The Health Care (Reimbursement of the Cost of EEA Services etc.) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012 (S.R. 2012/167), regs. 1, 5
F4: Art. 45(1)(a)(ii) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Health Services (Cross-Border Health Care and Miscellaneous Amendments) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/784), regs. 1(1), 2(4); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F5: Art. 45(1)(a)(iii) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Health Services (Cross-Border Health Care and Miscellaneous Amendments) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/784), regs. 1(1), 2(4); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F6: 1988 NI 2
F7: Words in art. 45(1)(c) inserted (1.4.2009) by Health and Social Care (Reform) Act (Northern Ireland) 2009 (c. 1), s. 34(3), Sch. 6 para. 3(20)(b); S.R. 2009/114, art. 2