46 Provision of vehicles for persons suffering from physical defect or disability
National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 (1978 c 29) | Legislation

46  Provision of vehicles for persons suffering from physical defect or disability

(1)     The Secretary of State may provide invalid carriages for persons appearing to him to be suffering from severe physical defect or disability, and, at the request of such a person, may provide for him a vehicle other than an invalid carriage.

(2)     The Secretary of State shall have power, in the case of an invalid carriage or other vehicle provided by him for, or belonging to, any such person as is mentioned in subsection (1), on such terms and subject to such

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