SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 2Consequential amendments

The Local Government (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 30)

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1

Section 31 of that Act (consultation between Commissioner for Local Administration in Scotland, Parliamentary Commissioner and Health Service Commissioner for Scotland) shall be amended as follows.

2

In subsection (1) for the words “section 93 of the Act of 1978” and “Part VI of the Act of 1978” there shall be substituted “the Act of 1993”.

3

In subsection (3)—

a

for the words from the beginning to “Commissioner conducting the investigation” there shall be substituted—

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If, at any stage in the course of conducting an investigation under the Act of 1967, the Parliamentary Commissioner

b

the words “under the Act of 1967 or Part VI of the Act of 1978, as the case may be,” shall be omitted.

4

In subsection (4) the words “or Part VI of the Act of 1978” shall be omitted.

5

In subsection (5) for the words “in that section as applied by section 95 of the Act of 1978” there shall be substituted “in section 15 of the Act of 1993”.

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In subsection (6) for the words “the “Act of 1978”” onwards there shall be substituted “the “Act of 1993” means the Health Service Commissioners Act 1993.”