{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-wheelchair-charges-regulations-1996/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-wheelchair-charges-regulations-1996/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1503",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Wheelchair Charges) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-wheelchair-charges-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Charge, and calculation of charge, for the supply of a wheelchair",
  "text": "(1) Where an NHS trust supplies at the request of a user, or at the request of his agent, a wheelchair of a more expensive type than a standard wheelchair, the NHS trust may make and recover from the user, or his agent, a charge in relation to that supply.\n(2) The amount of any charge to be made and recovered under paragraph (1) above shall be the difference in cost to the health service between—\n(a) the wheelchair supplied for the user; and\n(b) the standard wheelchair.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2004/696",
      "affecting_title": "The Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (Supplementary and Consequential Provision) (NHS Foundation Trusts) Order 2004"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1503/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:42:08.547067+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."
}