Isolation Hospitals Act 1901
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1901 c. 8 |
| Year | 1901 |
Isolation Hospitals Act, 1901
(1 Edw. 7.) CHAPTER 8.
An Act to amend the Isolation Hospitals Act, 1893.
[26th July 1901]
B E it enacted by the King'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:
1 Transfer by local authority of hospitals for use as isolation hospitals.
(1)1.—(1.) Any local authority (including a joint board) within the meaning of the Public Health Act, 1875 , which has provided under that Act, or any local Act, a hospital for the reception of the sick, may, with the sanction of the Local Government Board, and with the consent of the council, transfer it to the council of the county within which the hospital, or any part of the district of the authority, is situate.
(2) (2.) The Local Government Board may give their sanction under this section subject to such terms and conditions as they think fit, but shall not give their sanction unless they are satisfied that hospital accommodation sufficient for the needs of the district has been or will be provided.
(3) (3.) Any money paid to a local authority on any such transfer shall be applied as the Local Government Board direct, either in repayment of any loan of the local authority, or for any other purpose for which capital moneys may properly be applied.
(4) (4.) Any hospital transferred under this section shall be appropriated to a district formed under the Isolation Hospitals Act, 1893 (in this Act referred to as the principal Act), and may be adapted as an isolation hospital, and any hospital so appropriated shall be treated as if it had been originally established under that Act for the district.
(5) (5.) The expenses incurred by a county council in, or incidental to, the transfer of any hospital under this Act shall be defrayed as structural expenses incurred by a hospital committee within the meaning of section seventeen of the principal Act.
2 Contribution to hospitals provided by local authority.
(1)2.—(1.) The power conferred on a county council by section twenty-one of the principal Act to contribute to the expenses of an isolation hospital is hereby declared to include the power to contribute, in manner provided by that section, to any hospital provided by a local authority (including a...
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