Health and Childcare Support (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2019
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PART 2 Health | ||
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Definitions and application (Part 2) | ||
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3. (1) In this Part— | ||
“British citizen” has the same meaning as it has in section 6A (inserted by section 4 of the Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act 2004 ) of the Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act 1956 ; | ||
“eligible person” means— | ||
(a) an Irish citizen who is ordinarily resident in Northern Ireland, | ||
(b) a British citizen who is ordinarily resident in Northern Ireland, or | ||
(c) a citizen of a Member State who is ordinarily resident in Northern Ireland; | ||
“European Health Insurance Card” means the card issued by the Executive in the State and known as the European Health Insurance Card; | ||
“Executive” means the Health Service Executive; | ||
“medical expenses” means the cost of medical care, and products and services ancillary to that care, that are incurred by an eligible person in respect of necessary medical treatment; | ||
“Member State” means— | ||
(a) a Member State of the European Union, other than the State, | ||
(b) not being such a Member State, a state which is a contracting party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area signed at Oporto on 2 May 1992 as adjusted by the Protocol signed at Brussels on 17 March 1993, and | ||
(c) Switzerland; | ||
“Minister” means the Minister for Health; | ||
“necessary medical treatment” means, in relation to an eligible person, the treatment that becomes medically necessary and which the person would be entitled to receive during a temporary stay in a Member State pursuant to a European Health Insurance Card were he or she the holder of, or entitled to, such card; | ||
“prescribed” means prescribed by regulations under section 5 . | ||
(2) This Part applies to medical expenses incurred on or after the date on which section 4 comes into operation. |