{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-charges-to-overseas-visitors-scotland-amendment-eu-exit-regulations-2019/regulation-7",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2019/333",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Scotland) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-charges-to-overseas-visitors-scotland-amendment-eu-exit-regulations-2019",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "New regulations 5A to 5C",
  "text": "After regulation 5 insert—\n“Overseas visitors from the Republic of Ireland: treatment the need for which arose during the visit\n5A. No charge may be made or recovered for services forming part of the health service provided only for the purpose of giving treatment the need for which arose during the visit in respect of an overseas visitor who is ordinarily resident in the Republic of Ireland and who is—\n(a) an Irish citizen, or\n(b) a British citizen.\nFrontier workers: treatment the need for which arose during the visit\n5B. (1) No charge may be made or recovered for services forming part of the health service provided only for the purpose of giving treatment the need for which arose during the visit in respect of an overseas visitor who is a relevant frontier worker.\n(2) In paragraph (1) “a relevant frontier worker” means a person who—\n(a) is pursuing in the United Kingdom an activity as an employed or self-employed person which the person began to pursue there before exit day,\n(b) resides in an EEA State or Switzerland, and\n(c) returns to their residence in that EEA State or Switzerland (as the case may be) at least once a week.\nOverseas visitors from EEA States where no reciprocal agreement: treatment the need for which arose during the visit\n5C. (1) This regulation applies only where regulation 4B (reciprocal arrangements with EEA States) does not apply.\n(2) No charge may be made or recovered for services forming part of the health service provided only for the purpose of giving treatment, the need for which arose during the visit, in respect of an overseas visitor described in paragraph (3).\n(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2) an overseas visitor is a person who is resident in an EEA State and, at the time that the treatment which constitutes the service is provided—\n(a) holds a European Health Insurance card issued by the competent institution of an EEA State or Switzerland,\n(b) holds a Provisional Replacement Certificate issued by the competent institution of an EEA State or Switzerland, or\n(c) would have been eligible to be issued with a European Health Insurance Card by the United Kingdom if exit day had not occurred.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2019/333/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:05:33.290424+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}