National Health Service Reorganisation Act 1973

69 (1) In section 16 of the Medical Act 1956, in subsection (1) (which provides that the expression "institution" includes a health centre only if it is a centre provided under section 21 of the principal Act, section 15 of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1947, or section 17 of the Health Services Act (Northern Ireland) 1948), for the words from " section 21 " onwards there shall be substituted the words " section 2 of the National Health Service Reorganisation Act 1973, section 2 of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1972, or Article 5 of the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972 ".

(2) In subsection (2) of that section (which provides that employment in a health centre shall not be treated as employment for the purposes of section 15 of that Act unless it is employment by a medical practitioner in the provision of general medical services under Part IV of the principal Act, Part IV of the said Act of 1947 or Part II of the said Act of 1948, or employment in the provision of such out-patient services as are mentioned in the sections referred to in subsection (1) of that section), in paragraph (a) for the words from " said Act of 1946 " to " 1948 " there shall be substituted the words " National Health Service Act 1946, Part IV of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1947 or Part VI of the said Order of 1972 " and in paragraph (b) for the words from " such outpatient ", where they first occur, onwards there shall be substituted the words " the services of specialists or other services provided for out-patients in a health centre provided as mentioned in the last foregoing subsection ".