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[F110 Family Practitioner Committees.E+W+S

(1)It is the duty of the Secretary of State by order to establish, in accordance with Part II of [F2Schedule 1 to the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990], authorities to be called Family Practitioner Committees.

(2)Family Practitioner Committees shall be known by such names, in addition to that title, as the order may specify.

(3)When the Secretary of State makes an order under subsection (1) above establishing a Family Practitioner Committee, he shall also (either in the same or another instrument) make an order in relation to that Committee specifying a locality for which the Committee is to act.

(4)The Secretary of State may by order—

(a)vary a Committee’s locality;

(b)abolish a Committee;

(c)establish a new one.

(5)The Secretary of State shall so exercise his powers under subsections (3) and (4) above as to secure—

(a)that the localities for which Family Practitioner Committees are at any time acting together comprise the whole of England and Wales; but

(b)that none of them extends both into England and into Wales.

(6)Without prejudice to the generality of section 126(4) below, the power to make incidental or supplemental provision conferred by that subsection includes, in its application to orders under this section, power to make provision for the transfer of staff, property, rights and liabilities.

(7). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ]F3

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