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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2006 and shall come into force on 1st April 2006.
(2) In these Regulations–
 “the Income Support Regulations” means the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987;
 “the principal Regulations” means the National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) (Scotland) (No. 2) Regulations 2003.
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(1) The principal Regulations are amended as follows.
(2) For regulation 6 (payment of relevant travelling expenses) substitute–“
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Where a payment falls to be made under regulations 3(1) or 5(1) in respect of relevant travelling expenses that payment shall be made by–
(a) the National Waiting Times Centre Board when the hospital attended is the hospital accommodation and ancillary facilities located at Beardmore Way, Dalmuir, Clydebank; and, in any other case;
(b) the Health Board in whose area the hospital attended is situated.”.
(3) In regulation 7 (payment to persons resident in the Highlands and Islands)–
(a) in paragraph (1)(b) for “£8” (in both places where it occurs) substitute “£10”;
(b) for paragraph (4) substitute–“
(4) Where a payment falls to be made under paragraph (1) in respect of relevant travelling expenses, that payment shall be made by–
(a) the National Waiting Times Centre Board when the hospital attended is the hospital accommodation and ancillary facilities located at Beardmore Way, Dalmuir, Clydebank; and, in any other case;
(b) the Health Board in whose area the hospital attended is situated.”.
(4) In regulation 11 (repayment)–
(a) in sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph (6) after “Board” where it appears in head (ii) and at the end of that sub-paragraph insert–“or the National Waiting Times Centre Board (as the case may be)”; and
(b) in paragraph (7) after “Board” insert–“or the National Waiting Times Centre Board”.
(5) In regulation 12(1) (reimbursement of payments made in respect of travelling expenses) after “Board” where it first appears in the paragraph insert–“or the National Waiting Times Centre Board”.
(6) In Table A of the Schedule, in the modification of regulation 45 of the Income Support Regulations, for “£8,000” substitute “£16,000”.
(7) In Table B of the Schedule, in the modification of Schedule 3B to the Income Support Regulations, for “£3,000” substitute “£6,000”.
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Under regulations 6 and 7 of the principal Regulations payments shall only be made by the National Waiting Times Centre Board in respect of claims received on or after 1st April 2006.
RHONA BRANKIN
Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
10th March 2006