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

• Citation: S.I. 1988/8
• Sections: 2

Section 1 Citation and commencement

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

Section 2 Amendment of Regulations

(1) The National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) ( No. 2) Regulations 1982 are amended in accordance with the following paragraphs of this regulation.

(2) In regulation 3 (services exempted from charges), for paragraph (d) there is 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;

(3) In Schedule 3 (charges for services provided for overseas visitors otherwise than as in-patients) to columns (1), (2) and (3) there are added at the end the following entries set out in columns (1), (2) and (3) respectively—

SUPPLY OF DRUGS AND MEDICINES

(11) For the supply of a drug or medicine which is designed to eliminate, prevent the replication of, or in any way inhibit the mode of action of, any Human Immunodeficiency Virus — for each quantity sufficient for one day’s treatment.