The National Health Service (Charges, Primary Medical Services and Pharmaceutical and Local Pharmaceutical Services) (Coronavirus) (Further Amendments) Regulations 2021

Amendment of regulation 2 of the Charges Regulations

11.—(1) Regulation 2 of the Charges Regulations(1) (interpretation) is amended as follows.

(2) In paragraph (1), at the appropriate places in the alphabetical order insert—

““exemption certificate” means a certificate conferring exemption that is to be applied for in accordance with regulation 15(1);”; and

““health care professional” means a person who is a member of a profession regulated by a body mentioned in section 25(3) of the National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002(2) (the Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care);”.

(1)

Amended by S.I. 2015/1879, 2016/696 and 1077, 2018/1114, 2019/248, 990 and 1094 and 2021/169.

(2)

2002 c. 17. Section 25(3) had been amended by: the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (c. 14), Schedule 10, paragraph 17; the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c. 7), Schedule 15, paragraph 56(b); the Children and Social Work Act 2017 (c. 16), Schedule 4, paragraph 2(2); and S.I. 2010/231.