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Health And Social Services And Social Security Adjudications Act 1983

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.

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Health And Social Services And Social Security Adjudications Act 1983

specified amended provision(s)

The Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 Commencement (Wales) (No. 4) Order 2006

art. 2-7

commencement order for 2003 c. 43

Health And Social Services And Social Security Adjudications Act 1983

specified amended provision(s)

The Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 Commencement (No. 2) Order 2004

art. 2-6

commencement order for 2003 c. 43. This SI is amended by SI 2004/866, SI 2004/1009 and SI 2005/2925

Health And Social Services And Social Security Adjudications Act 1983

specified amended provision(s)

The Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (Commencement No. 1) (Wales) Order 2004

art. 2-5

commencement order for 2003 c. 43. This SI is amended by SI 2004/1019 and SI 2006/345

Health And Social Services And Social Security Adjudications Act 1983

specified amended provision(s)

The Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 Commencement (No.2) (Amendment No.2) Order 2004

art. 2

commencement order for 2003 c. 43

Health And Social Services And Social Security Adjudications Act 1983

specified amended provision(s)

The Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (Commencement No. 1) (Wales) (Amendment) Order 2004

art. 2

commencement order for 2003 c. 43

Health And Social Services And Social Security Adjudications Act 1983

specified amended provision(s)

The Adoption and Children Act 2002 (Commencement No. 10 Transitional and Savings Provisions) Order 2005

art. 2

commencement order for 2002 c. 38

Health And Social Services And Social Security Adjudications Act 1983

specified amended provision(s)

The Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 Commencement (No. 8) Order 2005

art. 2

4-11

Commencement order for 2003 c. 43 This SI amends SI 2004/288 and is amended by SI 2006/836

Health And Social Services And Social Security Adjudications Act 1983

specified amended provision(s)

The Adoption and Children (Scotland) Act 2007 (Commencement No. 4, Transitional and Savings Provisions) Order 2009

art. 2

commencement order for 2007 asp 4

Health And Social Services And Social Security Adjudications Act 1983

specified amended provision(s)

The Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 (Commencement No.13 and Transitory Provision) Order 2009

art. 2

commencement order for 2008 c. 4

Health And Social Services And Social Security Adjudications Act 1983

specified amended provision(s)

The Social Care Charges (Wales) Measure 2010 (Commencement) Order 2011

Gorchymyn Mesur Codi Ffioedd am Wasanaethau Gofal Cymdeithasol (Cymru) 2010 (Cychwyn) 2011

art. 2

commencement order for 2010 nawm 2

SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 4 Registered Homes

Part II Amendments of Acts Relating to Registered Homes

F1 Nursing Homes Act 1975

Annotations:

Amendments (Textual)

Sch. 4 Pt. I (paras. 1–23), Pt. II paras. 24–37, 44, Pt. III (paras. 49–56), Sch. 9 paras. 4, 6, 9, 12–14 and 26 repealed (E.W.) by Registered Homes Act 1984 (c. 23, SIF 113:3), s. 57, Sch. 3

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The following section shall be inserted after section 10 of that Act—

10A Service of documents.
1
Any notice or other document required under this Act to be served on a person carrying on, or intending to carry on, a nursing home or mental nursing home may be served on him by being delivered personally to him, or being sent by post to him in a registered letter or by the recorded delivery service.
2
For the purposes of section 7 of the Interpretation Act 1978 (which defines “service by post”) a letter to a person carrying on a nursing home or mental nursing home enclosing a notice or other document under this Act shall be deemed to be properly addressed if it is addressed to him at the home.
3
Any such notice or other document required to be served on a body corporate or a firm shall be duly served if it is served on the secretary or clerk of that body or a partner of that firm.
4
For the purposes of this section, and of section 7 of the Interpretation Act 1978 in its application to this section, without prejudice to subsection (2) above the proper address of a person, in the case of a secretary or clerk of a body corporate, shall be that of the registered or principal office of that body, in the case of a partner of a firm shall be that of the principal office of the firm, and in any other case shall be the last known address of the person to be served.