Part I Services and Administration

F4Advisory committees for Wales andCommunity Health Councils

Annotations:
Amendments (Textual)
F4

Words in the cross-heading substituted (28.6.1995 for specified purposes and otherwise 1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 17, ss. 2(1)(3), 8(1), Sch. 1 para. 10(e) (with Sch. 2 paras. 6, 16)

C120 Community Health Councils.

1

It is the Secretary of State’s duty to establish in accordance with this F1section, in the case of the area of each Health Authority, a council for the area, or separate councils for such separate parts of the area as he thinks fit, and such a council shall be called a Community Health Council.

2

The Secretary of State—

a

may if he thinks fit discharge this duty by establishing a Community Health Council for a district which includes the areas or parts of the areas of two or more F2Health Authorities, but

b

shall be treated as not having discharged that duty unless he secures that there is no part of the area of F3a Health Authoritywhich is not included in some Community Health Council’s district.

3

The additional provisions of Schedule 7 to this Act have effect in relation to Community Health Councils.