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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-charges-to-overseas-visitors-amendment-regulations-2020/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2020/59",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Amendment) Regulations 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-charges-to-overseas-visitors-amendment-regulations-2020",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "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).\nRegulation 2 inserts “Wuhan novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV)” into Schedule 1 to the 2015 Regulations (diseases for which no charge is to be made for treatment).\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/2020/59/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:34:32.218756+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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