Section 31: Power of the Minister to make services available and, in certain circumstances, to provide them otherwise than for purposes of hospital and specialist services

Health Services and Public Health Act 1968 · 1968 c.46

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The Minister may allow persons to make use (on such terms, including terms as to the payment of charges, as he thinks fit) of any services the provision of which is involved in the provision of hospital and specialist services; and he may. in the case of services the provision of which is so involved, provide them to an extent greater than that necessitated by the provision of hospital and specialist services if he thinks it expedient so to do in order to allow persons to make use of them.

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