Statutory Instrument 1988 No. 427
The National Health Service (Charges for Drugs and Appliances) Amendment Regulations 1988
(The document as of February, 2008)
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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS
1988 No. 427
NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES
The National Health Service (Charges for Drugs and Appliances) Amendment Regulations 1988
| Laid before Parliament | 11th March 1988 |
| Coming into force | 1st April 1988 |
The Secretary of State for Social Services, in exercise of powers conferred on him by sections 77(1) and (2) and 83(a) of, and paragraph 1 of Schedule 12 to, the National Health Service Act 1977([1]) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:—
Citation, commencement and interpretation
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (Charges for Drugs and Appliances) Amendment Regulations 1988 and shall come into force on1st April 1988.
(2) In these Regulations "the principal Regulations" means the National Health Service (Charges for Drugs and Appliances) Regulations 1980([2]).Amendment of the principal Regulations
2.—(1) In regulation 7(1) (exemptions) of the principal Regulations after sub-paragraph (a) there is added the following sub-paragraph:—"(aa) a person who has not attained the age of 19 years and is receiving qualifying full-time education within the meaning of paragraph 7 of Schedule 12 to the Act;")
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(2) For each amount specified in column (3) of Schedule 1 to these Regulations, where it appears in the provision of the principal Regulations specified in relation to it in column (1) of that Schedule (the subject matter of which is indicated in column (2) of that Schedule), there is substituted the amount specified in relation to it in column (4) of that Schedule.
Application
3. Regulation 2 of these Regulations applies— (a) in so far as it amends regulation 3(1) (aa) of the principal Regulations, where the month referred to in that provision commences on or after 1st April 1988;
(b) in so far as it amends regulation 9(5) of the principal Regulations, where the application referred to in regulation 9(1) of those Regulations is received on or after 1st April 1988;
(c) in any other case, to drugs and appliances supplied on or after 1st April 1988.Revocation
4. The following provisions of the National Health Service (Charges for Drugs and Appliances) Amendment Regulations 1987([4]) are hereby revoked:— (a) regulation 2 and Schedule 1, except to the extent that they amend Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations;
(b) regulation 3(1)(a), (b) and (d).
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Services.
8th March 1988
Tony Newton
Minister of State,
Department of Health and Social Security
Notes:[1] 1977 c. 49. See section 128(1) for the definitions of "prescribed" and "regulations". Section 83(a) was amended by the Health Services Act 1980 (c. 53) ( "the 1980 Act"), Schedule 1, paragraph 64 and paragraph 1 of Schedule 12 was amended by the 1980 Act, Schedule 5, paragraph 1.
[2] S.I. 1980/1503; the relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1987/368.
[3] Paragraph 7 of Schedule 12 was substituted by paragraph 4 of Schedule 5 to the Health Services Act 1980.
[4] S.I. 1987/368.
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