The National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) Amendment Regulations 1989

Amendment of Regulations

2.—(1) Part II of Schedule 1 to the National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) Regulations 1988(1) (calculation of requirements) is amended in accordance with the following paragraphs of this regulation.

(2) In paragraph 4 there are added after the words“column 2” the words“except that where a claimant or his partner is liable to a personal community charge under section 8 of the Abolition of Domestic Rates Etc. (Scotland) Act 1987(2) or a collective community charge under section 11 of that Act the provisions of those Regulations shall be applied in accordance with the modifications specified in the corresponding entries in column 2 of the National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) (Scotland) Regulations 1988(3)”.

(3) In Table B, in column (2) for the words“As if in paragraph 1” to“omitted” where they appear in relation to the entry in column (1)“Schedule 3”, there are substituted the following words:–

“As if in paragraph 1–

• for sub-paragraph (aa) there were substituted–

  “(aa)payments of interest and capital under a hire purchase agreement to buy the dwelling occupied as a home;”; and

• after sub-paragraph (h) there were added–

  “(i)mortgage capital payments;

  (j)payments in respect of an endowment policy in connection with the purchase of the dwelling occupied as the home;

  (k)payments by way of rent which do not otherwise fall within sub-paragraph (c) or (e) of this paragraph;

  (l)80 per cent of the general rates payable in respect of the dwelling occupied as the home.”.

As if paragraphs 5(a), 7 and 8 were omitted.

As if in paragraph 9(1) for the words“paragraph 1(c) to (h)” there were substituted the words“paragraph 1(c) to (h) and (k)”.

As if paragraph 10 were omitted.

As if in paragraph 11–

• for sub-paragraph (1)(a) and (b) there were substituted–

  “(a)in respect of a non-dependant aged 18 or more who is in remunerative work or is a person to whom regulation 3(3) applies (non-dependants), £11.20;

  (b)in respect of a non-dependant aged 18 or more to whom (a) does not apply–

  (i)except where sub-paragraph (ii) applies, £6.45;

  (ii)where the non-dependant is aged under 25 and is in receipt of income support, £3.00.”;

  • in sub-paragraph (2) for the words“the deduction specified in sub-paragraph (1)(b) appropriate in his case” there were substituted“£6.45”; sub-paragraphs (7)(d) and (e) were omitted.”