Health and Social Care Act 2012

10 (1) Section 12A (direct payments for health care) is amended as follows.

(2) In subsection (1) after “The Secretary of State” insert “, the Board, a clinical commissioning group or a local authority”.

(3) In subsection (2)—

(a) for paragraph (a) substitute—

“(a) anything that the Secretary of State or a local authority has a duty or power to provide or arrange under section 2A or 2B or Schedule 1;”,

(b) after that paragraph insert—

“(aa) anything that the Board or a clinical commissioning group may or must arrange for the provision of under this Act or any other enactment.”, and

(c) omit paragraphs (b) and (c).

(4) In subsection (4)—

(a) for “a Primary Care Trust” substitute “a clinical commissioning group”,

(b) for “the trust” substitute “the group”, and

(c) at the end insert “; and the references in this subsection to a clinical commissioning group are, so far as necessary for the purposes of regulations under subsection (2E) of that section, to be read as references to the Board.”

(5) In subsection (5), omit “or under regulations under subsection (4)”.

(6) After subsection (6) insert—

“(7) In this section and sections 12B to 12D, “local authority” has the same meaning as in section 2B.”