Covid-19 (Health Insurance Fund) (Jersey) Regulations 2020
Made 22nd April 2020
Coming into
force 23rd April 2020
1 Amendment of Health Insurance Fund (Miscellaneous Provisions)
(Jersey) Law 2011
(1) These
Regulations amend the Health Insurance Fund (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Jersey)
Law 2011[2].
(2) In
these Regulations, a reference to an Article is a reference to that Article in
the Health Insurance Fund (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Jersey) Law 2011.
2 Long title amended
For the long title there
is substituted –
“A LAW to
enable withdrawal of money from the Health Insurance Fund.”.
3 New Article 2B inserted
After Article 2A there is
inserted –
“2B Withdrawal of money from
Health Insurance Fund in response to Covid-19
(1) £5,322,000 is withdrawn from the Health
Insurance Fund and credited to the Consolidated Fund for the purpose of replacing
amounts paid to fund primary care services in response to the outbreak of
Covid-19 (as defined in Article 1 of the Covid-19 (Enabling Provisions) (Jersey) Law 2020[3]).
(2) For the purposes of the Public Finances
(Jersey) Law 2019[4], the amount credited to the Consolidated Fund is to be treated as if
it were excess income referred to in Article 21(1)(b) of that Law.
(3) To the extent that this Article is
inconsistent with Article 21(1) of the Health Insurance (Jersey) Law 1967[5] or any provision of the Public Finances (Jersey) Law 2019,
this Article prevails.”.
4 Citation and commencement
These Regulations may be
cited as the Covid-19 (Health Insurance Fund)
(Jersey) Regulations 2020 and come into force on the day after they are made.
w.j.c. millow
Assistant Greffier of the States