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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-charges-to-overseas-visitors-amendment-no-3-regulations-2022/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2022/614",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-charges-to-overseas-visitors-amendment-no-3-regulations-2022",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/238) (“the 2015 Regulations”), which provide for the making and recovery of charges for relevant services provided under the National Health Service Act 2006 to certain persons not ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom (overseas visitors). The 2015 Regulations and these amendments apply in relation to England only.\nRegulation 2 amends the 2015 Regulations to insert “Monkeypox” into Schedule 1 (diseases for which no charge is to be made for treatment). Regulation 2(2)(b) provides that charges incurred in respect of services for the diagnosis or treatment of monkeypox should: if not yet made, not be made; or, if made, should not be recovered or, if paid, should be repaid.\nA full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sector is foreseen.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2022/614/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:59:22.100842+00:00"
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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