20 Community Health Councils.E+W+S
(1)It is the Secretary of State’s duty to establish in accordance with this section a council for the area of each Area Health Authority [F1and a council for the district of each District Health Authority], or separate councils for such separate parts of the areas [F1or districts] of those Authorities as he thinks fit, and such a council shall be called a Community Health Council.
(2)The Secretary of State—
(a)may if he thinks fit discharge this duty by establishing a Community Health Council for a district which includes the areas or parts of the areas of two or more Area Health Authorities [F1or for a district which includes the districts or parts of the districts of two or more District Health Authorities], but
(b)shall be treated as not having discharged that duty unless he secures that there is no part of the area of an Area Health Authority [F1or of the district of a District Health Authority] which is not included in some Community Health Council’s district.
(3)The additional provisions of Schedule 7 to this Act have effect in relation to Community Health Councils.
Textual Amendments
F1Words inserted by Health Services Act 1980 (c. 53, SIF 113:2), Sch. 1 para. 40