SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 9 Minor and Consequential Amendments

The Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984

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F11

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2

In section 37 of that Act (removal to hospital of person with notifiable disease), in subsection (1)—

a

in paragraph (c) after the words “Secretary of State” there shall be inserted “or, pursuant to arrangements made by a District Health Authority (whether under an NHS contract or otherwise), in a suitable hospital vested in a NHS trust or other person”; F2. . .

F2b

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3

In section 41 of that Act (removal to hospital of inmate of common lodging-house with notifiable disease), in subsection (1)—

a

in paragraph (c) after the words “Secretary of State” there shall be inserted “or, pursuant to arrangements made by a District Health Authority (whether under an NHS contract or otherwise) in a suitable hospital vested in an NHS trust or any other person”; F3. . .

F3b

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4

In section 74 of that Act (definitions) after the definition of “London port health authority” there shall be inserted—

  • NHS trust” and “NHS contract” have the same meaning as in Part I of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 or, as the case may require, the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978