Explanatory note

These Regulations further amend the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (No. 2) Regulations 1982, their main effect being to increase the sums prescribed for charges to certain overseas visitors for services forming part of the health service.

Regulation 2 substitutes new Schedules of charges for overseas visitors, both as in-patients (the new Schedule 2) and otherwise (the new Schedule 3).

Regulation 2(5) substitutes a new Schedule 4 to the principal Regulations, by which radiological procedures are no longer allocated individual unit values. They are classified into six groups instead and unit values are specified for each group in ascending order. There is a higher charge per unit value for the first six units than for subsequent units.

Regulation 3 makes consequential revocations.