Health Services Act 1976

Health Services Act 1976^[a]
Act of Parliament
	Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title	An Act to make further provision with respect to the use or acquisition by private patients and others of facilities and supplies available under the National Health Service Acts 1946 to 1973 or the National Health Service (Scotland) Acts 1947 to 1973; to control hospital building outside the National Health Service and provide for the amendment of enactments under which registration is a prerequisite for carrying on a nursing home or private hospital; and for those purposes to establish a Health Services Board.
Citation	1976 c. 83
Territorial extent	England and Wales; Scotland;
Dates
Royal assent	22 November 1976
Commencement	22 November 1976 (except part II); 22 January 1977 (part II);
Repealed	1 April 1991
Other legislation
Amends	National Health Service Act 1946; National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1947; National Health Service Amendment Act 1949; Health Services and Public Health Act 1968; National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1972; National Health Service Reorganisation Act 1973;
Amended by	National Health Service Act 1977; National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978; Health Services Act 1980; Registered Homes Act 1984;
Repealed by	National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted
Revised text of statute as amended
Text of the Health Services Act 1976 as in force today (including any amendments) within the United Kingdom, from legislation.gov.uk.

The Health Services Act 1976 (c. 83) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

It deals primarily with issues relating to private medicine in the United Kingdom. It established an independent Health Services Board to be responsible for the progressive withdrawal from NHS hospitals of pay beds.^[1]

Subsequent developments

The whole act was repealed by section 66(2) of, and schedule 10 to, the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990, which came into force on 1 April 1991.^[2]

Notes

↑ Section 24(1).
↑ Section 24(3).
↑ Section 24(2).

References

Halsbury's Statutes,

↑ Royal Commission on the NHS. HMSO. 1979. ISBN 0 10 176150 3. Retrieved 12 June 2015.
↑ "National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990", legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives, 1990 c. 19

External links

Text of the Health Services Act 1976 as in force today (including any amendments) within the United Kingdom, from legislation.gov.uk.
Text of the Health Services Act 1976 as originally enacted or made within the United Kingdom, from legislation.gov.uk.

[1] Section 24(1).

[2] Section 24(3).

[3] Section 24(2).

[4] Royal Commission on the NHS. HMSO. 1979. ISBN 0 10 176150 3. Retrieved 12 June 2015.

[5] "National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990", legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives, 1990 c. 19

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