Health And Social Services And Social Security Adjudications Act 1983

1983 c. 41

An Act to amend the law relating to the financing of certain social services in England and Wales and Scotland and to children and young persons; to make fresh provision for the Central Council for Education andTraining in Social Work and further provision for the remuneration and conditions of service of medical and dental practitioners in the National Health Service and health service officers; to amend the law relating to homes regulated by the Nursing Homes Act 1975, the Child Care Act 1980, the Residential Homes Act 1980 and the Children’s Homes Act 1982; to repeal enactments about the designation of health authorities as teaching authorities and membership of authorities so designated; to make further provision for social security adjudication; to make further provision for fees for medical practitioners’ certificates relating to notifiable diseases andfood poisoning; to abolish certain advisory bodies; to make minor alterations in certain enactments relating to health; and for connected purposes.

C1C2E1Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

Annotations:
Extent Information
E1

Certain provisions extend to Northern Ireland see s. 33(1).

Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C2

Power to amend conferred by Social Security Act 1986 (c. 50, SIF 113:1), s. 54(1)

Act (except Sch. 8): transfer of functions (1.7.1999) by S.I. 1999/672, art. 2, Sch. 1