{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-wales-act-2006/section-131",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-wales-act-2006/section-131.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/42",
  "legislation_title": "National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-wales-act-2006",
  "path": "section/131",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "131",
  "heading": "Payment of travelling expenses",
  "text": "Regulations may provide in relation to prescribed descriptions of persons—\n(a) for the payment by the Welsh Ministers, a Local Health Board or an NHS trust, in such cases as may be prescribed, of travelling expenses (including the travelling expenses of a companion) incurred or to be incurred for the purpose of their obtaining—\n(i) any services provided under this Act,\n(ii) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...\n(iii) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(b) for the reimbursement by a Local Health Board to an NHS trust and, in such cases as may be prescribed, to another Local Health Board, of such payments,\n(c) for the reimbursement by a Local Health Board to an NHS trust or an NHS foundation trust... of payments made by virtue of section 183(a) of the National Health Service Act 2006 (c. 41).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 131(a) substituted (1.6.2010) by The National Health Service (Reimbursement of the Cost of EEA Treatment) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/915), reg. 6"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 131(a)(ii) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The National Health Service (Cross-Border Healthcare and Miscellaneous Amendments etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/777), regs. 1(1), 4(3)(e) (with reg. 15, Sch. 1) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1348, regs. 10-12);. 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 131(a)(iii) and word omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Social Security Coordination (Reciprocal Healthcare) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/776), regs. 1(1), 4(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 131(c) omitted (1.4.2013) by virtue of Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c. 7), s. 306(4), Sch. 21 para. 32; S.I. 2013/160, art. 2(2) (with arts. 7-9)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/42/section/131",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:13:50.847860+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."
}