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Section 181: Provision of hospital accommodation by county councils and local authorities.

Public Health Act 1936 · 1936 c. 49View on legislation.gov.uk

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Part VI: Hospitals, Nursing Homes, &c.

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A county council or a local authority may provide hospital accommodation for persons in their county or district who are sick.

The power of a county council or local authority under this section to provide hospital accommodation for persons who are sick includes power to provide—

clinics, dispensaries and out-patient departments; and
in the case of the council of a county or county borough, and in the case of any other council who are a welfare authority for the purposes of Part VII of this Act, maternity homes.

A county council or a local authority may give reasonable donations or subscriptions to a voluntary hospital or institution, but the expenses incurred by them under this subsection shall not in any year exceed an amount equal to the produce (calculated in accordance with rules made under section nine of the Rating and Valuation Act, 1925) of a rate of one and one-third pence in the pound, or of such higher rate-poundage as the Minister may in any particular case from time to time approve, levied in the area chargeable with the expenses.

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