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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-charges-to-overseas-visitors-scotland-amendment-regulations-2020/note",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2020/17",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-charges-to-overseas-visitors-scotland-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) (Scotland) Regulations 1989 (S.I. 1989/364) (“the 1989 Regulations”), which provide for the making and recovery of charges for relevant services provided under the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978. Schedule 1 of the 1989 Regulations, as introduced by regulation 3 of the 1989 Regulations, contains a list of diseases for the treatment of which no charge is to be made.\nRegulation 2 of these Regulations amends schedule 1 of the 1989 Regulations to include Wuhan novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) as one of the diseases for the treatment of which no charge is to be made.\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/ssi/2020/17/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:03:59.894765+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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