Statute Law Repeals - Law Commission - Ministry of Justice

1.39 The Middlesex Hospital subsequently became a teaching hospital within the
National Health Service. It merged with University College London Hospital in
1994 and became part of the University College London Hospital NHS Trust.
The hospital closed in December 2005 and most of the hospital site was sold for
re-development.
1.40 The two Acts relating to the hospital became unnecessary once the hospital was
absorbed by the National Health Service in 1948. 54 The Middlesex Hospital Act of
1836 55 established a corporation to run the hospital with power to hold land. The
Middlesex Hospital Act 1938 56 amended the 1836 Act and confirmed the
corporation’s power to hold and acquire land. Both Acts may now be repealed as
unnecessary.
GROUP 11 – NEWCASTLE HOSPITALS
1.41 Two obsolete Acts relating to the Holy Jesus Hospital and the St Mary
Magdalene Hospital in the Newcastle-upon-Tyne area are proposed for repeal.
These charitable institutions are today governed by a scheme made by the
Charity Commission in 2008.
1.42 The hospital 57 of the Holy Jesus was built by the Mayor and Burgesses of
Newcastle-upon-Tyne near Pilgrim Street in the 1680s. The hospital was
established as a body corporate by a deed dated 26 March 1683 made under the
Hospitals for the Poor Act 1597. 58 The body corporate was called The Master
Brethren and Sisters of the Hospital of the Holy Jesus founded in the Manors in
the Town and County of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. It was established to provide
almshouses for poor people. The hospital remains to this day in the ownership of
Newcastle City Council, though it is currently managed by the National Trust.
54 By virtue of the National Health Service Act 1946, s 6 and the National Health Service Act
(Appointed Day) Order 1948 (SI 1948 No 112) all voluntary hospitals and all hospitals
belonging to local authorities were (with certain exceptions) transferred to and vested in
the Minister of Health on 5 July 1948.
55 6 & 7 Will.4 c.vii.
56 1 & 2 Geo.6 c.xii.
57 The word “hospital” is used in the ancient sense of meaning a charitable institution for the
housing and maintenance of the needy, aged or infirm. Neither of these Newcastle
hospitals has the primary function of providing medical support for the residents.
58 39 Eliz.1 c.5. This 1597 Act was repealed by the Charities Act 1960, s 39, Sch 5.
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