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161 Interpretation.E+W+S

(1)In this Part of this Act—

  • F1[ “ hospital ” means any institution which provides medical or surgical treatment for in-patients, other than—

    (a)

    a health service hospital within the meaning of [F2the National Health Service Act 2006 or the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006] or the M1National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978,

    (b)

    F3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    (c)

    any institution carried on for profit,]

  • “policy of insurance” includes a covering note,

  • “salvage” means the preservation of a vessel which is wrecked, stranded or in distress, or the lives of persons belonging to, or the cargo or apparel of, such a vessel, and

  • “under the owner’s control” means, in relation to a vehicle, that it is being driven by the owner or by a servant of the owner in the course of his employment or is otherwise subject to the control of the owner.

F4(2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(3)In this Part of this Act, any reference to an accident includes a reference to two or more causally related accidents.

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F1Definition of “hospital" in s. 161(1) substituted (5.4.1999) by 1999 c. 3, s. 18(3); S.I. 1999/1075, art. 2

F2S. 161(1): in definition of "hospital" words in para. (a) substituted (1.3.2007) by National Health Service (Consequential Provisions) Act 2006 (c. 43), ss. 2, 5, 8(2), Sch. 1 para. 123 (with Sch. 3 Pt. 1)

F3S. 161(1): in the definition of "hospital" para. (b) repealed (29.1.2007) by Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (c. 43), ss. 169(2), 196, 199, Sch. 14 Pt. 3 (with s. 166); S.I. 2006/3397, art. 3 (subject to art. 4); S.S.I. 2007/10, art. 2(2)(d)(e)(g)

F4S. 161(2) omitted (30.6.2015) by virtue of Deregulation Act 2015 (c. 20), s. 115(7), Sch. 3 para. 7; S.I. 2015/994, art. 9(a) (with Sch. Pt. 3A) (as amended by S.I. 2015/1405, art. 2)

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C1S. 161 excluded (23.6.1999) by S.I. 1999/1736, art. 8(1)(b)(2)(b)

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