5. In Schedule 3 to the Parliamentary Commissioner Act 1967 (matters not subject to investigation)(1), paragraph 8 shall be renumbered as sub-paragraph (1) of that paragraph and–
(a)in that sub-paragraph as so renumbered, for “a Health Authority, a Special Health Authority” there is substituted “a Health Authority, a Primary Care Trust, a Special Health Authority”; and
(b)after that sub-paragraph there is inserted the following sub-paragraph–
“(2) For the purposes of this paragraph, action taken by a Health Authority, Special Health Authority or Primary Care Trust in the exercise of functions of the Secretary of State shall be regarded as action taken on his behalf.”
1967 c. 13. Paragraph 8 of Schedule 3 was amended by the National Health Service Reorganisation Act 1973 (c. 32) (“the 1973 Act”), Schedule 4, paragraph 109, the Health Service Commissioners Act 1993 (c. 46), Schedule 2, paragraph 2, the 1995 Act, Schedule 1, paragraph 93, and by S.I. 1981/736, 1986/1168 and 1987/661.