A local health authority may make provision in their area for the visiting by health visitors, for the purpose mentioned in section 24 of the 1946 Act (health visiting), of persons elsewhere than in their homes.
A local health authority may make provision in their area for securing the attendance of nurses on persons who require nursing elsewhere than in their own homes.
The power under subsection (1) above of a local health authority may be exercised in like manner as that in which their duty under section 24 of the 1946 Act may be discharged, and the power under subsection (2) above of such an authority may be exercised in like manner as that in which their duty under section 25 of that Act may be discharged.
A local health authority may make arrangements with another local health authority for there to be made available in that other authority's area, on such terms and conditions as may be agreed, the services of health visitors employed by the authority for the purposes of subsection (1) above or section 24 of the 1946 Act, and the services of nurses employed by them for the purposes of subsection (2) above or section 25 of that Act.
This section shall have effect in Scotland as if, for the references therein to sections 24 and 25 of the 1946 Act, there were substituted references respectively to sections 24 and 25 of the 1947 Act.