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The establishment and conduct of agencies for the supply of nurses is regulated by the Nurses Agencies Act 1957, as amended. For the purposes of the Act the term ‘agency for the supply of nurses’ is defined by section 8 as meaning:
‘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 residence there’.
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As amended by the Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Act 1979, section 23(4) and Schedule 7, paragraph 8.
SI 1961/1214. The amounts of fees payable under the Regulations have been successively altered, see now SI 1986/1414.
Nurses Agencies Act 1957, section 1(3), as amended by the Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Act 1979, Schedule 7, paragraph 8.
See the Nurses Agencies Regulations, SI 1961/1214, regulation 6.
Nurses Agencies Act 1957, section 2(1) as amended by the Local Government Act 1972, Schedule 29, paragraph 30.
Nurses Agencies Act 1957, sections 2(2) and 7; Nurses Agencies Regulations 1961, SI 1961/1214.
Nurses Agencies Act 1957, section 2(2).
Nurses Agencies Act 1957, section 2(6).
Nurses Agencies Act 1957, section 2(7).
SI 1981/1574.
Nurses Agencies Act 1957, section 2(3).
Nurses Agencies Act 1957, section 2(5).
Nurses Agencies Act 1957, section 2(4).
Nurses Agencies Act 1957, section 2(1).
Nurses Agencies Act 1957, section 3.
Nurses Agencies Act 1957, section 4(7).
Manpower Services Commission (Exemption) Order 1974, SI 1974/1571, article 2, Schedule, Part I.
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Finch, J. (1994). Nurses agencies. In: Speller’s Law Relating to Hospitals. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7122-7_18
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