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NURSING HOMES AND NURSING AGENCIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1971 - SECT 17

Application of Part II, etc.

17.(1) The foregoing provisions of this Part shall not apply to

(a)any nursing agency carried on in connection with any hospital maintained or
controlled by any Government department or by any body constituted by or under
any enactment or incorporated by Royal Charter; or

(b)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 homes without the nurse taking up
residence there.

(2) The provisions of section 85 of the Public Health Acts Amendment Act 1907,
and any provisions relating to employment agencies or servants registries
contained in any local Act, shall not apply to a nursing agency, but this
subsection shall not exempt from any such provisions any other business
carried on in conjunction with a nursing agency.

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