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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-charges-to-overseas-visitors-scotland-amendment-regulations-2006/note",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2006/141",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-charges-to-overseas-visitors-scotland-amendment-regulations-2006",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations further amend the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Scotland) Regulations 1989 (“the principal Regulations”) to provide for the making and recovery of charges in respect of certain services provided under the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 to certain persons not ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom (“overseas visitors”).\nRegulation 2(a) inserts definitions of “dental list”, “general dental services” “ophthalmic list” and “ophthalmic medical practitioner” into regulation 1(2) of the principal Regulations (citation, commencement and interpretation).\nRegulation 2(b) extends the definition of “services forming part of the health service” in regulation 1(2) of the principal Regulations for which charges may be made to include general dental services, general ophthalmic services and personal dental services.\nRegulation 3 provides that any dental practitioner, ophthalmic medical practitioner or ophthalmic optician who provides general dental services, general ophthalmic services or personal dental services to an overseas visitor who is not exempt from payment of charges in terms of the principal Regulations shall recover from the person liable to pay such charges for those services as are determined by the relevant Health Board.\nRegulation 4 amends regulation 3(b) of the principal Regulations to provide that the provision that no charge shall be made in respect of any services forming part of the health service provided for an overseas visitor otherwise than at, or by staff employed to work at, or under the direction of, a hospital, shall not apply to the provision of general dental services, general ophthalmic services or personal dental services.\nRegulation 5 amends regulation 8 of the principal Regulations to provide that if a person has paid a charge which was not properly payable in terms of the regulations, the person who made and recovered the charge shall repay it.",
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  "version": "current",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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