(1)Where the carrying out of a scheme for the provision by the Secretary of State in pursuance of this Act of hospital accommodation or other facilities will involve the displacement from any premises of persons residing in them, the Secretary of State may make arrangements with one or more of the following bodies—
(a)an authority who are a local authority for the purposes of the [1957 c. 56.] Housing Act 1957,
(b)a housing association within the meaning of that Act of 1957,
(c)a housing trust within the meaning of that Act of 1957.
(d)a development corporation established under the [1965 c. 59.] New Towns Act 1965, and
(e)the Commission for the New Towns,
for securing, in so far as it appears to him that there is no other residential accommodation suitable for the reasonable requirements of those persons available on reasonable terms, the provision of residential accommodation in advance of the displacement from time to time becoming necessary as the carrying out of the scheme proceeds.
(2)Arrangements under subsection (1) above may include provision for the making by the Secretary of State to the body with whom the arrangements are made of payments of such amounts and for such purposes as may be approved by the Treasury.
(1)The requirements of this section with respect to the notification of births and deaths are in addition to, and not in substitution for, the requirements of any Act relating to the registration of births and deaths.
(2)It is the duty of each registrar of births and deaths to furnish, to the prescribed medical officer of the Area Health Authority of which the area includes the whole or part of the registrar's sub-district, such particulars of each birth and death which occurred in the Authority's area as are entered (on and after 1st April 1974) in a register of births or deaths kept for that sub-district.
(3)Regulations may provide as to the manner in which and the times at which particulars are to be furnished in pursuance of subsection (2) above.
(4)In the case of every child born, it is the duty—
(a)of the child's father, if at the time of the birth he is actually residing on the premises where the birth takes place, and
(b)of any person in attendance upon the mother at the time of, or within six hours after, the birth,
to give notice of the birth (as provided in subsection (5) below) to the prescribed medical officer of the Area Health Authority for the area in which the birth takes place.
This subsection applies to any child which has issued forth from its mother after the expiry of the twenty-eighth week of pregnancy whether alive or dead.
(5)Notice under subsection (4) above shall be given either—
(a)by posting within 36 hours after the birth a prepaid letter or postcard addressed to the prescribed medical officer of the Area Health Authority at his office and containing the required information, or
(b)by delivering within that period at that officer's office a written notice containing the required information,
and an Area Health Authority shall, upon application to them, supply without charge to any medical practitioner or midwife residing or practising within their area prepaid addressed envelopes together with the forms of notice.
(6)Any person who fails to give notice of a birth in accordance with subsection (4) above is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £1, unless he satisfies the court that he believed, and had reasonable grounds for believing, that notice had been duly given by some other person.
Proceedings in respect of this offence shall not, without the Attorney-General's written consent, be taken by any person other than a party aggrieved or the Area Health Authority concerned.
(7)A registrar of births and deaths shall, for the purpose of obtaining information concerning births which have occurred in his sub-district, have access at all reasonable times to notices of births received by a medical officer under this section, or to any book in which those notices may be recorded.
Section 265 of the [1875 c. 55.] Public Health Act 1875 (which relates to the protection of members and officers of certain authorities) has effect as if there were included in the authorities referred to in that section—
(a)a Regional Health Authority,
(b)an Area Health Authority,
(c)a special health authority, and
(d)a Family Practitioner Committee,
and as if any reference in that section to the Public Health Act 1875 included a reference to this Act.