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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-charges-to-overseas-visitors-amendment-regulations-2021/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2021/1123",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Amendment) Regulations 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-charges-to-overseas-visitors-amendment-regulations-2021",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
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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 Principal Regulations”) which provide for the making and recovery of charges for relevant services provided under the National Health Service Act 2006 (c. 41) to certain persons not ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom.\nRegulation 2 inserts Switzerland into the list of countries in Schedule 2 to the Principal Regulations, meaning that no charges may be made or recovered in respect of relevant services provided to an overseas visitor where the provision of those services is covered by a reciprocal agreement with Switzerland.\nA full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant impact on the private, voluntary or public sectors is foreseen. An impact assessment has been carried out in relation to the Convention on Social Security Coordination between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Swiss Confederation and is available from the Department of Health and Social Care, 39 Victoria Street, London, SW1H 0EU.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/1123/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:08:20.016280+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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