Health Authorities Act 1995

12 In section 22 (co-operation between health authorities and local authorities)—

(a) in subsection (1), for “health authorities, Family Practitioner Committees and local authorities” substitute “Health Authorities and Special Health Authorities (on the one hand) and local authorities (on the other)”,

(b) in subsection (2), after “who shall” insert “advise”,

(c) omit the Table,

(d) for subsection (3) substitute—

“(3) Except as provided by an order under the following provisions of this section, each joint consultative committee shall represent one or more Health Authorities together with, in the case of each, one or more associated local authorities; and a Health Authority shall be represented together with each of the local authorities associated with that Health Authority in one or other of the committees (but not necessarily the same committee).

(3ZA) For the purposes of subsection (3) above a local authority is associated with a Health Authority if it is a local authority whose area is wholly or partly within the area of the Health Authority.”, and

(e) in subsection (4)(b), for the words from “an Area” to the end substitute “a Health Authority to be represented on a joint consultative committee together with a local authority none of whose area is within the area of the Health Authority;