# The National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Amendment) Regulations 2008 (revoked), Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Regulations 1989 (“the principal Regulations”), which provide for the making and recovery of charges in respect of certain services provided under the National Health Service Act 2006 to certain persons not ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom (overseas visitors).
Regulation 2 amends regulation 4(1) of the principal Regulations to meet the United Kingdom’s obligations in relation to medical treatment under the Council of Europe Convention on Action Against Human Trafficking.
The effect of this is to extend the exemption from charges to overseas visitors set out in regulation 4 of the principal Regulations, to overseas visitors who the United Kingdom has reasonable grounds to believe are victims within the meaning of Article 4 of the Council of Europe Convention on Action Against Human Trafficking (this exemption is limited to the recovery and reflection period recognised in Article 13 of the Convention), and those who have been identified as victims.
Regulation 2 also amends regulation 4(4) of the principal Regulations with the effect that the spouse, civil partner or child of an overseas visitor who falls within the new exemption in sub-paragraph (r) of paragraph (1) of regulation 4 of the principal Regulations is also exempt from charges in respect of services forming part of the health service.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/2251/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-charges-to-overseas-visitors-amendment-regulations-2008/note/enacted
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