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Section 16 of the General Healthcare System Law conditions GESY beneficiary status on ordinary residence in the government-controlled areas or the Sovereign Base Areas

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Section 16 of the General Healthcare System Law, N.89(I)/2001 (consolidated text), sets the categories of person eligible to be a GESY beneficiary — citizens of the Republic, certain Union citizens, certain third-country nationals, recognised refugees and persons with subsidiary protection, and their family members — and, for each, conditions eligibility on ordinary residence in the areas controlled by the Government of the Republic. A separate subsection extends beneficiary status to citizens of the Republic ordinarily resident in the Sovereign Base Areas, and to their family members ordinarily resident in either the government-controlled areas or the Sovereign Base Areas.

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  • General Healthcare System Law, N.89(I)/2001, section 16 (Beneficiaries), consolidated text — Tier A — primary / documentary

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