{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-scotland-act-1978/section-55",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-scotland-act-1978/section-55.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1978/29",
  "legislation_title": "National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-scotland-act-1978",
  "path": "section/55",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "55",
  "heading": "Hospital accommodation on part payment.",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State may authorise the accommodation described in this section to be made available, for patients to such extent as he may determine, and may recover such charges as he may determine in respect of such accommodation and calculate them on any basis that he considers to be the appropriate commercial basis.\nThe accommodation mentioned above is—\n(a) in single rooms or small wards which are not for the time being needed by any patient on medical grounds;\n(b) at any hospital vested in the Secretary of State.\n(2)",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words substituted by Health and Medicines Act 1988 (c. 49, SIF 113:2), s. 7(9)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words inserted by National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19, SIF 113:2), s. 66(1), Sch. 9 para. 19(9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 55(2) repealed by Health and Medicines Act 1988 (c. 49, SIF 113:2), ss. 7(9)(b), 25(2), Sch. 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1978/29/section/55",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:30:48.038600+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."
}