{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-services-and-social-security-adjudications-act-1983/schedule-4/paragraph-52",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-services-and-social-security-adjudications-act-1983/schedule-4/paragraph-52.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1983/41",
  "legislation_title": "Health And Social Services And Social Security Adjudications Act 1983",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-services-and-social-security-adjudications-act-1983",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/52",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "52",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) A Registered Homes Tribunal to hear an appeal relating solely to registration under the Nursing Homes Act 1975 shall include a registered medical practitioner.\n(2) Such a tribunal shall also include—\n(a) if the appeal relates to registration of a maternity home, a qualified midwife; and\n(b) in any other case, a qualified nurse.\n(3) A tribunal which is constituted to hear both an appeal relating to registration under the Nursing Homes Act 1975 and an appeal relating toregistration under Part I of this Schedule shall include a person selected in accordance with supparagraph (2) above.\n(4) In this Part of this Schedule—\n“nursing home” and “maternity home” have the meanings assigned to them by section 1 of the Nursing Homes Act 1975;\n“mental nursing home” has the meaning assigned to it by section 2 of that Act;\n“qualified midwife” means a person who is for the time being certified under the Midwives Act 1951 or registered under the Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Act 1979; and\n“qualified nurse” means—\n(a) a person who is for the time being registered under section 2(1) ofthe Nurses Act 1957; or\n(b) a person who—\n(i) is for the time being registered under the Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Act 1979; and\n(ii) would have been qualified to be registered under section 2(1) of the Nurses Act 1957.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "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 III (paras. 49–56), Sch. 9 paras. 4, 6, 9, 12–14 and 26 repealed (E.W.) by Registered Homes Act 1984 (c. 23, SIF 113:3), s. 57, Sch. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1975 c. 37."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1975 c. 37."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "1951 c. 53."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M4",
      "text": "1979 c. 36."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M5",
      "text": "1957 c. 15."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1983/41/schedule/4/paragraph/52",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:07:08.155028+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}