SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 2Consequential amendments

The Local Government Act 1974 (c. 7)

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Section 33 of that Act (consultation between Local Commissioners, Parliamentary Commissioner and Health Service Commissioners) shall be amended as follows.

2

In subsection (1) for the words “sections 109” to the end of paragraph (b) and for the words “Part V of the Act of 1977” 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—

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If, at any stage in the course of conducting an investigation under the Act of 1967, the Parliamentary Commissioner

b

the words “under the Act of 1967 or Part V of the Act of 1977, as the case may be,” shall be omitted.

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In subsection (4) the words “or Part V of the Act of 1977” shall be omitted.

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In subsection (5) for the words “paragraph 16 of Schedule 13 to the National Health Service Act 1977” there shall be substituted “section 15 of the Act of 1993”.

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In subsection (6) for the words “the “Act of 1977”” onwards there shall be substituted “the “Act of 1993” means the Health Service Commissioners Act 1993.”