# Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972, Article 45: Travelling expenses of patients, etc.

Extent: N.I.

(1) The Ministry may, by regulations, provide for the payment by the Department or an HSC 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—
(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;
(ii) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(iii) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(b) by any person accompanying such person as is mentioned in paragraph ( a);
(c) by any relative being a person of a prescribed description, visiting a person availing himself of services under this Order or 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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1972/1265/article/45 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-personal-social-services-northern-ireland-order-1972/article-45
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