NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES Citation, commencement and interpretation 1 1 These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1988 and shall come into force on 1st April 1988. 2 In these Regulations “the principal Regulations ” means the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (No. 2) Regulations 1982 . Amendment of principal Regulations 2 1 The principal Regulations shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraphs of this regulation. 2 In regulation 2— a for paragraph (3) there shall be substituted the following— 3 Where the services forming part of the health service are provided for an overseas visitor, otherwise than as an in-patient of a health service hospital, at, or by staff employed to work at or under the direction of a hospital of any class, there shall be made and recovered, in respect of each occasion on which such services are provided, a charge the amount of which shall be— a except where it falls to be determined under sub-paragraph (b) below, the sum specified in the column of Schedule 3 covering the class of hospital in which that hospital is included opposite the entry in Column 1 of that Schedule which relates to the services provided; b in the case of the procedures to which paragraph 5(i) of Schedule 3 relates, the sum determined by multiplying the number of unit values, specified in Schedule 4 for the group into which the relevant procedure falls, by the appropriate unit charge specified against paragraph 5(i) in the column of Schedule 3 covering the class of hospital in which that hospital is included. b After paragraph (4) there shall be added the following paragraph— 5 For the purposes of paragraph (2) and Schedule 2, a “single room” means a room used for the accommodation of one patient only, such room having a floor area of not less than 10 square metres (or 8 square metres where a room is for the accommodation of a child under the age of 10 years) and being completely enclosed by walls or partitions and doors and having been decorated within the previous 7 years. 3 For Schedule 2 (daily charges for services provided for overseas visitors as in-patients) there shall be substituted the Schedule set out as Schedule 1 to these Regulations. 4 For Schedule 3 (charges for services provided for overseas visitors otherwise than as in-patients) there shall be substituted the Schedule set out as Schedule 2 to these Regulations. 5 For Schedule 4 (units of cost value for purpose of determining charges for radiodiagnosis examination procedures) there shall be substituted the Schedule set out as Schedule 3 to these Regulations. Revocations 3 The following Regulations are hereby revoked:— a The National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Amendment Regulations 1983 , regulations 2 and 5; b The National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Amendment Regulations 1987 , regulation 2(3) and (4) and Schedules 1 and 2; c The National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Amendment Regulations 1988 , regulation 2(3). Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Services. Tony Newton Minister of State, Department of Health and Social Security 8th March 1988