(1)    These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (Travel Expenses and Remission of Charges) Amendment Regulations 2007 and shall come into force on 1st May 2007.

(2)    These Regulations apply in relation to England.

(3)    In these Regulations—

(a)    “the Travel Expenses and Remission of Charges Regulations” means the National Health Service (Travel Expenses and Remission of Charges) Regulations 2003; and

(b)    “the Income Support Regulations” means the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987.

(1)    Schedule 1 to the Travel Expenses and Remission of Charges Regulations (Modifications of Income Support Regulations) is amended as follows.

(2)    In Table A, in the modifications of—

(a)    regulation 45 of the Income Support Regulations, for “£21,000” substitute “£21,500”; and

(b)    regulation 53 of the Income Support Regulations—

(i)    for “12,750” substitute “£13,000”, and

(ii)    for “£21,000” substitute “£21, 500”.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health

Caroline Flint

Minister of State

Department of Health

23rd March 2007

These Regulations amend the National Health Service (Travel Expenses and Remission of Charges) Regulations 2003 to increase the amounts used as the basis for calculating entitlement to the payment of travel expenses and the remission of charges under those Regulations.