57 Accommodation and services for private resident patients
National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 (1978 c 29) | Legislation

57  Accommodation and services for private resident patients

(1)     Subject to section 63 and to this section, if the Secretary of State is satisfied in the case of a health service hospital that it is reasonable to do so, he may—

(a)     authorise accommodation and services at the hospital in question to be made available for resident patients to such extent as he may determine;

(b)     determine the charges payable in respect of such patients in accordance with the following provisions of this section, and recover those charges,

and, on an undertaking being given by or on behalf of such patients to pay such charges, that accommodation and those services shall be available

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