
1999 No. 2840 (W.20)
NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, WALES
The National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) Amendment (Wales) Regulations 1999
Made 5th October 1999
Coming into Force 5th October 1999
The National Assembly for Wales makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred on the Secretary of State for Wales by sections 83A, 126(4) and 128(1) of the National Health Service Act 1977 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf and now vested in the National Assembly for Wales:
Citation, commencement, interpretation and extent
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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) Amendment (Wales) Regulations 1999 and shall come into force on 5th October 1999.
(2) In these Regulations, “the principal Regulations” means the National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) Regulations 1988.
(3) These Regulations shall apply to Wales only.
Amendment of the principal Regulations
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At the end of regulation 2 of the principal Regulations there shall be inserted the following paragraph —“
(5) In respect of regulations 2 and 4 and Schedule 1 the amendments made by the National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) Amendment Regulations 1999 shall also have effect in Wales.”.
Transitional Provision
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(1) Where immediately before 5th October 1999 a person was entitled to remission of charges or payment of travelling expenses by virtue of regulation 4(c) or (d) of the principal Regulations (remission or payment by reference to entitlement to family credit), or by virtue of regulation 4(g) or (h) of the principal Regulations (remission or payment by reference to entitlement to disability working allowance), that entitlement shall continue for so long as family credit or disability working allowance, as the case may be, remains in payment.
Signed on behalf of the National Assembly for Wales under section 66(1) of the Government of Wales Act 1998.
Dafydd Elis Thomas
Presiding Officer
5th October 1999