The National Health Service (Charges for Drugs and Appliances) Amendment Regulations 1995

• Citation: S.I. 1995/643
• Sections: 4

Section 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (Charges for Drugs and Appliances) Amendment Regulations 1995 and shall come into force on 1st April 1995.

(2) In these Regulations, “the principal Regulations ” means the National Health Service (Charges for Drugs and Appliances) Regulations 1989 .

Section 2 Amendment of amounts specified in the principal Regulations

For each amount specified in column (3) of the Schedule to these Regulations, where it appears in the provision of the principal Regulations specified in relation to it in column (1) the subject matter of which is indicated in column (2)), there shall be substituted the amount specified in relation to it in column (4).

Section 3 Amendment of regulation 8 of the principal Regulations

(1) Regulation 8 of the principal Regulations (pre-payment certificates) shall be amended as follows.

(2) For paragraph (6) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—

(6) Where payment of a prescribed sum has been made under this regulation and, not more than one month after the date of which his pre-payment certificate became valid, the person in respect of whom payment was made—

(a) becomes a person to whom any of the provisions of regulations 6(1)(b) to (f) applies; or

(b) becomes a person entitled to remission under regulation 3 of the Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges Regulations; or

(c) dies; or

(d) becomes resident in a hospital and thereafter either—

(i) dies while resident in hospital before the expiry of the pre-payment certificate; or

(ii) remains in hospital until the expiry of the pre-payment certificate,

an application for repayment of that sum may be made, by or on behalf of that person or his estate, in accordance with paragraphs (7) and (8).

(3) After paragraph (7) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

(8) An application under paragraph (6) shall be made—

(a) in a case falling within paragraph (6)(a), (b) or (c), not more than four months after the date on which the pre-payment certificate became valid;

(b) in a case falling within paragraph (6)(d)(i), not more than three months after the date of death; or

(c) in a case falling within paragraph (6)(d)(ii), not more than three months after the date on which the pre-payment certificate expired.

Section 4 Transitional provisions

Where, on or after 1st April 1995—

(a) any appliance specified in Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations is supplied pursuant to an order given before that date; or

(b) any pre-payment certificate is granted under regulation 8 of the principal Regulations pursuant to an application under that regulation which was received before that date,

the principal Regulations shall have effect in relation to that supply or, as the case may be, that grant as if regulation 2 of these Regulations had not come into force.