{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-wales-act-2006/section-138",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-wales-act-2006/section-138.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/138",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "138",
  "heading": "Expenses payable by employed patients",
  "text": "(1) The Welsh Ministers may require any person—\n(a) who is a resident patient for whom the Welsh Ministers provide services under this Act, and\n(b) who is absent during the day from the hospital where he is a patient for the purpose of engaging in remunerative employment,\nto pay such part of the cost of his maintenance in the hospital and any incidental cost as may seem reasonable to the Welsh Ministers having regard to the amount of that person's remuneration.\n(2) The Welsh Ministers may recover the amount required under subsection (1).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 138: Functions made exercisable by Local Health Boards (1.10.2009) by The Local Health Boards (Directed Functions) (Wales) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/1511), reg. 4, Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/42/section/138",
    "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."
}