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Health and Personal Social Services Act (Northern Ireland) 2001

2001 CHAPTER 3

CONTENTS

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  1. PART I

    SOCIAL CARE WORKERS

    1. Preliminary

      1. 1. The Northern Ireland Social Care Council

      2. 2. “Social care worker”, etc.

    2. Registration

      1. 3. The register

      2. 4. Applications for registration

      3. 5. Grant or refusal of registration

      4. 6. Removal, etc. from register

      5. 7. Rules about registration

      6. 8. Registration – enforcement

    3. Codes of practice

      1. 9. Codes of practice

    4. Training

      1. 10. Approval of courses, etc.

      2. 11. Qualifications gained outside Northern Ireland

      3. 12. Post registration training

      4. 13. Visitors for certain social work courses

      5. 14. Functions of the Department

    5. Miscellaneous and supplemental

      1. 15. Appeals to the Social Care Tribunal

      2. 16. Publication, etc. of register

      3. 17. Cesser of functions of CCETSW

      4. 18. Rules

      5. 19. Default powers of Department

      6. 20. Interpretation of this Part – “children’s home”

      7. 21. Interpretation of this Part – “residential care home” and “nursing home”

      8. 22. Interpretation of this Part – general

  2. PART II

    RECOVERY OF CHARGES IN CONNECTION WITH THE TREATMENT OF ROAD TRAFFIC CASUALTIES

    1. Payment for hospital treatment

      1. 23. Payment for hospital treatment of traffic casualties

    2. Certificates of health services charges

      1. 24. Applications for certificates of health services charges

      2. 25. Information contained in certificates

    3. Recovery of health services charges

      1. 26. Payment of health services charges

      2. 27. Recovery of health services charges

    4. Reviews and appeals

      1. 28. Review of certificates

      2. 29. Appeals against a certificate

      3. 30. Appeal tribunals

      4. 31. Appeal to the court on point of law

      5. 32. Reviews and appeals: supplementary

    5. Information

      1. 33. Provision of information

      2. 34. Use of information held by the Department

    6. Payments to hospitals

      1. 35. Payment of health services charges to hospitals

    7. Miscellaneous and general

      1. 36. Regulations governing payments into court, etc.

      2. 37. Interpretation of this Part

      3. 38. Consequential amendments

  3. PART III

    HEALTH AND PERSONAL SOCIAL SERVICES – GENERAL

    1. Fund-holding practices

      1. 39. Repeal of law about fund-holding practices

    2. Local administration

      1. 40. Remuneration for Part VI services

      2. 41. Indemnity cover for Part VI services

      3. 42. Local representative committees

    3. Health and Social Services trusts

      1. 43. Establishment orders

      2. 44. Exercise of powers

      3. 45. Public dividend capital

      4. 46. Existing HSS trusts: conversion of initial loan

      5. 47. Borrowing, surplus funds and investment

    4. Evasion of charges, fraud etc.

      1. 48. Evasion of charges etc.

      2. 49. Disqualification of Part VI practitioners

    5. Miscellaneous

      1. 50. Disclosure of information by the Commissioner for Complaints

      2. 51. Provision of information as to births and deaths

      3. 52. Liability of officers of Health and Social Services Councils

      4. 53. Regulations under section 11 of the Medical Act 1983

      5. 54. Public access to meetings of certain bodies

      6. 55. Sale of medical practices: goodwill

  4. PART IV

    MISCELLANEOUS AND GENERAL

    1. Pharmaceutical chemists

      1. 56. Regulation of the profession of pharmaceutical chemist

    2. General

      1. 57. Orders, regulations and directions

      2. 58. Supplementary and consequential provision

      3. 59. Interpretation

      4. 60. Amendments and repeals

      5. 61. Short title and commencement

  5. SCHEDULES:

    1. Schedule 1

      The Northern Ireland Social Care Council

    2. Schedule 2

      Schedule 11 to the principal Order, as substituted

    3. Schedule 3

      Schedule 10 to the principal Order, as substituted

    4. Schedule 4

      Regulation of the profession of pharmaceutical chemist

    5. Schedule 5

      Repeals

An Act to establish a Northern Ireland Social Care Council and make provision for the registration, regulation and training of social care workers; to make provision about the recovery of charges in connection with the treatment of road traffic casualties in health services hospitals; to amend the law about the health and personal social services; to confer power to regulate the profession of pharmaceutical chemist; and for connected purposes.

[20th March 2001]

BE IT ENACTED by being passed by the Northern Ireland Assembly and assented to by Her Majesty as follows: