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14 July 2011
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National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Regulations 2011 (SI 2011/1556)

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Consolidate the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Regulations 1989, SI 1989/306, relating to the making and recovery of charges for services provided under the National Health Service Act 2006 to persons not ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom.

Introduce exemptions from NHS hospital charges to:

- failed asylum seekers formally supported under s 4 or 95 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999;

- children in the care of a Local Authority; and

- certain members of the Olympic and Paralympic Games Family during games period in 2012.

Extend the temporary absence allowed when calculating a period of residence in the UK from up to three months to up to 182 days, and amend the definition of pandemic influenza in the list of diseases for which treatment is free.

In force: 27 June 2011

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