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Ministry of Health Act 1919

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3Transfer of powers and duties to and from Minister

(1)There shall be transferred to the Minister—

(a)all the powers and duties of the Local Government Board;

(b)all the powers and duties of the Insurance Commissioners and the Welsh Insurance Commissioners ;

(c)all the powers of the Board of Education with respect to attending to the health of expectant mothers and nursing mothers and of children who have not attained the age of five years and are not in attendance at schools recognised by the Board of Education ;

(d)all the powers and duties of the Board of Education with respect to the medical inspection and treatment of children and young persons under paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section thirteen of the [7 Edw. 7. c. 43.] Education (Administrative Provisions) Act, 1907, as amended and extended by the [8 & 9 Geo. 5. c. 39.] Education Act, 1918: Provided that, for the purpose of facilitating the effective exercise and performance of these powers and duties, the Minister may make arrangements with the Board of Education respecting the submission and approval of schemes of local education authorities and the payment of grants to local education authorities, so far as such schemes and payment relate to or are in respect of medical inspection and treatment; and the powers and duties of the Minister may under any such arrangements be exercised and performed by the Board on his behalf and with his authority under such conditions as he may think fit;

(e)all the powers of the Privy Council and of the Lord President of the Council under the [2 Edw. 7. c. 17.] Midwives Acts, 1902 and [8 & 9 Geo. 5. c. 43.] 1918 ;

(f)such powers of supervising the administration of Part I. of the [8 Edw. 7. c. 67.] Children Act, 1908 (which relates to infant life protection), as have heretofore been exercised by the Secretary of State :

Provided that—

(i)the power conferred on the Insurance Commissioners by the proviso to subsection (2) of section sixteen of the [1 & 2 Geo. 5. c. 55.] National Insurance Act, 1911, of retaining and applying for the purposes of research such sums as are therein mentioned shall not be transferred to the Minister, but the duties heretofore performed by the Medical Research Committee shall after the date of the commencement of this Act be carried on by or under the direction of a Committee of the Privy Council appointed by His Majesty for that purpose, and any property held for the purposes of the former Committee shall after that date be transferred to and vested in such persons as the body by whom such duties as aforesaid are carried on may appoint, and be held by them for the purposes of that body ; and

(ii)in such matters of a judicial nature under the National Insurance (Health) Acts, 1911 to 1918, as may be prescribed under those Acts, the powers and duties of the Insurance Commissioners and the Welsh Insurance Commissioners by this Act transferred to the Minister shall be exercised by the Minister through a special body or special bodies of persons constituted in such manner as may be so prescribed.

(2)It shall be lawful for His Majesty from time to time by Order in Council to transfer to the Minister—

(a)all or any of the powers and duties of the Minister of Pensions with respect to the health of disabled officers and men after they have left the service ;

(b)all or any of the powers and duties of the Secretary of State under the enactments relating to lunacy and mental deficiency;

(c)any other powers and duties in England and Wales of any Government department which appear to His Majesty to relate to matters affecting or incidental to the health of the people.

(3)It shall be lawful for His Majesty from time to time by Order in Council to transfer from the Minister to any other Government department any of the powers and duties of the Minister, whether relating to the relief of the poor or otherwise, which appear to His Majesty not to relate to matters affecting or incidental to the health of the people.

And it is hereby declared that it is the intention of this Act that, in the event of provision being made by Act of Parliament passed in the present or in any future session for the revision of the law relating to the relief of the poor and the distribution amongst other authorities of the powers exerciseable by boards of guardians, there shall be transferred from the Minister to other Government departments such of the powers and duties under the enactments relating to the relief of the poor then vested in the Minister (not being powers or duties relating or incidental to the health of the people) as appear to His Majesty to be such as could be more conveniently exercised and performed by such other departments.

(4)His Majesty may by Order in Council make such incidental, consequential, and supplemental provisions as may be necessary or expedient for the purpose of giving full effect to any transfer of powers or duties by or under this section, including provisions for the transfer of any property, rights, and liabilities held, enjoyed, or incurred by any Government department in connection with any powers or duties transferred, and may make such adaptations in the enactments relating to such powers or duties as may be necessary to make exerciseable by the Minister and his officers or by such other Government department and their officers, as the case may be, the powers and duties so transferred.

(5)In connection with the transfer of powers and duties to or from the Minister by or under this Act, the provisions set out in the First Schedule to this Act shall have effect.

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