The National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1988

• Citation: S.I. 1988/13
• Sections: 2

Section 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1988 and shall come into force on 1st February 1988.

(2) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations ” means the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Scotland) Regulations 1982 .

Section 2 Amendment of the principal Regulations

(1) In regulation 3 of the principal Regulations (services exempted from charges) for paragraph (d) there shall be substituted the following paragraph:—

(d) at a special clinic for the treatment of sexually transmitted diseases or in respect of a sexually transmitted disease by virtue of a reference from such a clinic, but, in the case of services which relate to infection with any Human Immunodeficiency Virus, only to the extent that they consist of a diagnostic test for evidence of infection with any such Virus and counselling associated with that test or its result; or

(2) In Schedule 3 to the principal Regulations (charges for services provided for overseas visitors otherwise than as in-patients) there shall be added at the end of columns (1) and (2) respectively the following entries:—