4Provision by the Minister of Health of health services
(1)The Minister of Health may provide such services and do such things as appear to him to be requisite-for meeting the medical needs as defined in the Unemployment Assistance Act, 1934, or other needs as to mental or bodily health, of persons of any description for whom the Assistance Board have power to provide accommodation under section three of this Act, including any such services and things as are specified in the [9 & 10 Geo. 6. c. 81.] National Health Service Act, 1946, as services or things which, on or after the appointed day for the purposes of that Act, the Minister of Health, local health authorities, executive councils or other persons is or are authorised or required to provide or do, or may be authorised or required to provide or do, by or under that Act, and any services and things the provision or doing of which is within the duties of local health authorities under the Lunacy and Mental Treatment Acts, 1890 to 1930, or the Mental Deficiency Acts, 1913 to 1938.
(2)The Minister of Health may make arrangements with any other government department or other authority or person for the provision of services or the doing of things under this section, on his behalf and at his expense, by that authority or person.
(3)The expenses of the Minister of Health under this section shall be defrayed out of moneys provided by Parliament.