{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-services-act-1976/section-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-services-act-1976/section-19.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1976/83",
  "legislation_title": "Health Services Act 1976",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-services-act-1976",
  "path": "section/19",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Amendments to provisions about registration of nursing homes and private hospitals.",
  "text": "(1) The paragraph set out in subsection (2) below shall be inserted—\n(a) after paragraph (c) of section 4 of the Nursing Homes Act 1975, as paragraph (cc); and\n(b) after paragraph (b) of the proviso in section 1(3) of the Nursing Homes Registration (Scotland) Act 1938, as paragraph (bb),\nso as to afford, in each case, an additional ground for refusing to register, or cancelling the registration of, a person in respect of a nursing home or mental nursing home.\n(2) The said paragragh is—\n“(0) that the home or any premises to used in connection therewith consist of or include works executed in contravention of section 12(1) of the Health Services Act 1976;”.\n(3) In section 16(1) of the Mental Health (Scotland) Act 1960 (prerequisites of registration of private hospital) the following paragragh shall be inserted after paragraph (b)—\n“(bb) that neither the hospital nor any premises to be used in connection therewith consist of or include works executed in contravention of section 12(1) of the Health Services Act 1976;”.\n(4) In each of the following provisions (penalties for carrying on a nursing home, mental nursing home or private hospital without registration) namely—\n(a) section 12 of the Nursing Homes Act 1975;\n(b) section 1(1) of the Nursing Homes Registration (Scotland) Act 1938;\n(c) section 22(1) of the Mental Health (Scotland) Act 1960;\nfor the words from “shall be liable” onwards there shall be substituted the words “shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £400 or on conviction on indictment to a fine”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1975 c. 37."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1938 c. 73."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "1960 c. 61"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M4",
      "text": "1975 c. 37"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M5",
      "text": "1938 c. 73"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "The text of ss. 19(2)(3)(4), 23(6) and Sch. 5 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1976/83/section/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T07:28:24.447679+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."
}