National Assistance Act 1948
1948 c. 29 · 69 provisionsView on legislation.gov.uk
An Act to terminate the existing poor law and to provide in lieu thereof for the assistance of persons in need by the National Assistance Board and by local authorities; to make further provision for the welfare of disabled, sick, aged and other persons and for regulating homes for disabled and aged persons and charities for disabled persons; to amend the law relating to non-contributory old age pensions; to make provision as to the burial or cremation of deceased persons; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.
- In the matter of an application by Siobhan McLaughlin for Judicial Review (Northern Ireland) [2018] UKSC 48
- Kola (FC) and another (FC) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2007] UKHL 54
- R (on the application of A) v London Borough of Croydon and one other action [2009] UKSC 8
- R (on the application of KM) (by his mother and litigation friend JM) v Cambridgeshire County Council [2012] UKSC 23
- R (on the application of McDonald) v Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea [2011] UKSC 33
- R (on the application of Worcestershire County Council) v Secretary of State for Health and Social Care [2023] UKSC 31
- R v Cardiff and Vale University Health Board and others [2017] UKSC 56
- R v Secretary of State for Health [2015] UKSC 46
- Regina v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions ex parte Kehoe [2005] UKHL 48
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