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SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 2Consequential amendments

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

6(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—

(3)If, at any stage in the course of conducting an investigation under the Act of 1967, the Parliamentary Commissioner; and

(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”.

(6)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.”