# Nurses Agencies Act 1957 (repealed), Section 8: Interpretation.

Extent: E+W

In this Act the following expressions have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them, that is to say:—
“agency for the supply of nurses” means the business (whether or not carried on for gain and whether or not carried on in conjunction with another business) of supplying persons to act as nurses, or of supplying persons to act as nurses and persons to act as midwives, but does not include the business carried on by any county or district nursing association or other similar organisation, being an association or organisation established and existing wholly or mainly for the purpose of providing patients with the services of a nurse to visit them in their own homes without herself taking up her residence there;
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“the Minister” means the Secretary of State;
“nurse” means a nurse for the sick . . .

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/5-6/16/section/8 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/nurses-agencies-act-1957-repealed/section-8
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