http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1983/41/section/26Health And Social Services And Social Security Adjudications Act 1983An 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.texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2018-08-04Expert Participation2016-04-06 Health And Social Services And Social Security Adjudications Act 1983specified amended provision(s)The Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 Commencement (Wales) (No. 4) Order 2006art. 2-7commencement order for 2003 c. 43Health And Social Services And Social Security Adjudications Act 1983specified amended provision(s)The Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 Commencement (No. 2) Order 2004art. 2-6commencement order for 2003 c. 43. This SI is amended by SI 2004/866, SI 2004/1009 and SI 2005/2925Health And Social Services And Social Security Adjudications Act 1983specified amended provision(s)The Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (Commencement No. 1) (Wales) Order 2004art. 2-5commencement order for 2003 c. 43. This SI is amended by SI 2004/1019 and SI 2006/345Health And Social Services And Social Security Adjudications Act 1983specified amended provision(s)The Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 Commencement (No.2) (Amendment No.2) Order 2004art. 2commencement order for 2003 c. 43Health And Social Services And Social Security Adjudications Act 1983specified amended provision(s)The Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (Commencement No. 1) (Wales) (Amendment) Order 2004art. 2commencement order for 2003 c. 43Health And Social Services And Social Security Adjudications Act 1983specified amended provision(s)The Adoption and Children Act 2002 (Commencement No. 10 Transitional and Savings Provisions) Order 2005art. 2commencement order for 2002 c. 38Health And Social Services And Social Security Adjudications Act 1983specified amended provision(s)The Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 Commencement (No. 8) Order 2005art. 2 4-11Commencement order for 2003 c. 43 This SI amends SI 2004/288 and is amended by SI 2006/836Health And Social Services And Social Security Adjudications Act 1983specified amended provision(s)The Adoption and Children (Scotland) Act 2007 (Commencement No. 4, Transitional and Savings Provisions) Order 2009The Adoption and Children (Scotland) Act 2007 (Commencement No. 4, Transitional and Savings Provisions) Order 2009art. 2commencement order for 2007 asp 4Health And Social Services And Social Security Adjudications Act 1983specified amended provision(s)The Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 (Commencement No.13 and Transitory Provision) Order 2009art. 2 3commencement order for 2008 c. 4Health And Social Services And Social Security Adjudications Act 1983specified amended provision(s)The Social Care Charges (Wales) Measure 2010 (Commencement) Order 2011Gorchymyn Mesur Codi Ffioedd am Wasanaethau Gofal Cymdeithasol (Cymru) 2010 (Cychwyn) 2011art. 2commencement order for 2010 nawm 2 Part VIII26 1The following section shall be substituted for section 50 of the Health Services and Public Health Act 1968—501Subject to any exceptions which he may specify, the Secretary of State may direct that a District Health Authority shall pay to a medical practitioner for each certificate duly sent by him under section 48 of this Act a fee of such amount as the direction may specify.2The Secretary of State may direct that different fees shall be paid under this section in relation to different circumstances.3A direction under this section may make provision in relation to fees payable after a date specified in the direction.4The date may be before or after the date of the direction but may not be before if it would be to the detriment of medical practitioners.5Before giving a direction as to a fee under this section the Secretary of State shall consult any body accepted by him as a proper body for negotiating fees for medical practitioners.6For the avoidance of doubt it is hereby declared that the fact that a medical practitioner who gives a certificate under section 48 of this Act holds the office to whose holder the certificate is required to be sent does not disentitle him to payment of the fee (if any) payable for the certificate..2The following section shall be inserted after section 71 of thatAct—71A1Subject to any exceptions which he may specify, the Secretary of State may direct that a Health Board shall pay to a medical practitioner a fee of such amount as the direction may specify for each certificate duly sent by him under—asection 3(1) of the Infectious Diseases (Notification) Act 1889 (notifications of infectious diseases);bregulations made under section 1 of the Public Health (Scotland) Act 1945 (power to make regulation with a view to preventing the spread of certain diseases);csection 22(1) of the Food and Drugs (Scotland) Act 1956 (notification of cases of food poisoning).2The Secretary of State may direct that different fees shall be paid under this section in relation to different circumstances.3A direction under this section may make provision in relation to fees payable after a date specified in the direction.4The date may be before or after the date of the direction but may not be before if it would be to the detriment of medical practitioners.5Before giving a direction as to a fee under this section the Secretary of State shall consult any body accepted by him as a proper body for negotiating fees for medical practitioners.6For the avoidance of doubt it is hereby declared that the fact that a medical practitioner who gives any such certificate as is referred to in subsection (1) above holds the office to whose holder the certificate is required to be sent does not disentitle him to payment of the fee (if any) payable for the certificate.7This section applies to Scotland only..S. 26(1) repealed (E.W.) by Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984 (c. 22, SIF 100:1), s. 78, Sch. 31968 c. 46.