The National Health Service Act 1946 (c. 81)
2At the end of section 22(4) of the National Health Service Act 1946 (which enables regulations to provide in certain cases for the making, variation, etc., of schemes of divisional administration relating to the functions of local health authorities under subsection (1) of that section with respect to the care of certain children and certain other functions of such authorities) there shall be added the words " other than functions under the said subsection (1) which are for the time being social services functions within the meaning of the Local Authority Social Services Act 1970 ".
3In paragraph 1 of Part II of Schedule 4 to the said Act of 1946 (which provides that certain matters shall stand referred to a local authority's health committee) after the words " a local health authority" there shall be inserted the words " other than matters which by virtue of section 2 or 3(2)(a) of the Local Authority Social Services Act 1970 stand referred to the authority's social services committee ".
4In paragraph 3 of the said Part II (which empowers a local health authority to authorise their health committee to exercise on their behalf certain functions) after the word " except " there shall be inserted the words " any such functions which are for the time being social services functions within the meaning of the Local Authority Social Services Act 1970 and except ".