8(1)Sub-paragraphs (3) to (5) apply in relation to expenses incurred under subsection (1) or (2) of section 46 of the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984 (c. 22) in relation to a person (“E”) whose body has been buried, or cremated, as mentioned in that subsection.E+W+S
(2)In sub-paragraphs (3) to (5) “liability proceedings” means proceedings for the expenses' recovery under section 46(5) of that Act from a person (“F”) on account of F having, at a time before the appointed day, been for the purposes of the 1948 Act liable to maintain E.
(3)No liability proceedings may be begun, or continued, on or after the appointed day; but this is subject to sub-paragraph (5).
(4)Sub-paragraph (3) applies (subject to sub-paragraph (5))—
(a)even to expenses incurred before the appointed day, and
(b)even where E died before the appointed day.
(5)Where liability proceedings begun before the appointed day resulted in a court making an order before that day for the recovery of the expenditure from F, this Act does not prevent the enforcement of the order (whether by proceedings or otherwise) on or after the appointed day.
(6)In this paragraph “the appointed day” means the day appointed under this Act for the coming into force of section 147(1)(g).
Commencement Information
I1Sch. 13 para. 8 in force at 6.4.2009 for W. by S.I. 2009/631, art. 2(b)
I2Sch. 13 para. 8 in force at 6.4.2009 except in relation to local authorities in W. by S.I. 2009/462, art. 4(b)