(1)There continues to be a body known as the Family Health Services Appeal Authority (“FHSAA”).
(2)The FHSAA has such functions as are conferred on it by this Act or by any other enactment.
(3)The Secretary of State may direct the FHSAA to exercise any of his functions relating to the determination of appeals to him which are specified in the directions.
(4)The Secretary of State may make available to the FHSAA any facilities provided by him or by an NHS trust or Special Health Authority for any service under this Act, and the services of persons employed by the Secretary of State or by an NHS trust or Special Health Authority.
(5)Schedule 13 makes further provision about the FHSAA.
(1)The Secretary of State may make such payments in respect of expenses incurred by the FHSAA as he may determine.
(2)The Secretary of State may pay to the members of the FHSAA—
(a)such remuneration, and
(b)such travelling and other allowances, including compensation for loss of remunerative time,
as he may determine.
(3)Payments under this section are subject to such conditions as to records, certificates, or otherwise as the Secretary of State may determine.
(1)Subsections (1) to (3) of section 81 (conditions of supply under section 80) apply in relation to the services of persons employed by a Special Health Authority and made available under section 169(4) as they apply in relation to the services of officers of Special Health Authorities to be made available under section 80 (supply of goods and services by the Secretary of State).
(2)For the purposes of section 169(4)—
(a)the Secretary of State may give directions to an NHS trust requiring it to make facilities or the services of persons available as mentioned there, but
(b)subsections (1) and (2) of section 81 apply in relation to the services of such persons as they apply in relation to the services of officers to be made available by virtue of section 80.