Section 5 of the 1978 Act (Scottish Health Service Planning Council) shall cease to have effect.
Section 6 of that Act (national consultative committees) shall cease to have effect.
In section 7 of that Act (local health councils)—
in subsection (2), the words from “by local authorities” to “and for the appointment” shall cease to have effect;
in subsection (9)(d), after the words “Health Board” there shall be inserted “and from any NHS trust in their area or district”; and
in subsection (9)(e), after the words “Health Board” there shall be inserted “and establishments in their area or district administered by NHS trusts”.
In section 8(1) of that Act (university liaison committees)—
after the words “
for the words “the area or combined” there shall be substituted “that area or those”; and
after the words “those Boards” in the second place where they occur there shall be inserted “, any such NHS trust”.
In section 9 of that Act (local consultative committees)—
for the words from “after consultation” to “is representative” in each of subsections (1), (3) and (4) there shall be substituted “a Health Board is satisfied that a committee formed for its area is representative”;
for the words “Secretary of State” in the second place where they occur in subsection (1) there shall be substituted “Health Board”; and
for the word “he” in each of subsections (3) and (4) there shall be substituted “the Board”.