Health Services and Public Health Act 1968

14 Amendment of section 22 of 1946 Act and section 22 of 1947 Act

(1) Subsection (2) of section 22 of the 1946 Act (which enables local health authorities to charge for residential accommodation, day nurseries, food or articles provided under that section for mothers and young children) shall have effect with the substitution, for the words " residential accommodation, day nurseries, food or articles ", of the words " residential accommodation, day nurseries, child-minders, food or articles ".

(2) For subsection (2) of section 22 of the 1947 Act (which enables local health authorities to charge for residential accommodation, day nurseries, food and other things provided under that section for mothers and young children) there shall be substituted the following subsection:—

“(2) Where under the aforesaid arrangements there is provided residential accommodation, day nurseries, child-minders, food or anything that may be prescribed, not being a drug, a medicine, or an appliance of a type normally supplied, the local health authority may recover from any person for whom such provision is made such charge as the authority may determine, having regard to the cost of such provision:

Provided that the authority may remit the said charge in whole or in part if, in the circumstances of any particular case, they consider it reasonable to do so”.