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Section 184: Recovery of expenses of maintenance in certain institutions.

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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For the purposes of this section—

the expression " institution " means any hospital, maternity home or other residential institution wherein accommodation is provided by a county council or local authority under this Act; and
the expenses incurred by a county council or local authority in providing for the maintenance of a patient in an institution shall, in respect of each day of maintenance therein, be taken to be a sum representing the average daily cost per patient of the maintenance of the institution and the staff thereof and the maintenance and treatment of the patients therein, and may include a reasonable charge for the patient's removal to or from the institution.

Expenses recoverable under this section may be recovered as a civil debt, either summarily or otherwise, in proceedings commenced within twelve months from the date of the patient's discharge from the institution or, if he dies in the institution, from the date of his death.

Nothing in this section affects the provisions of this Act relating to the removal to hospital of infectious persons suffering from tuberculosis of the respiratory tract.

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