National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990

2 Family Health Services Authorities

(1) On and after the day appointed for the coming into force of this subsection—

(a) each existing Family Practitioner Committee shall be known as a Family Health Services Authority; and

(b) any reference in any enactment to a Family Practitioner Committee shall be construed as a reference to a Family Health Services Authority;

and the generality of this subsection is not affected by any express amendment made by this Act.

(2) In subsection (1) above “enactment” means—

(a) an enactment passed before the day appointed for the coming into force of subsection (1) above; and

(b) an enactment comprised in subordinate legislation made before that day.

(3) In section 10 of the principal Act (Family Health Services Authorities)—

(a) for the words “Schedule 5 to this Act” there shall be substituted “Schedule 1 to the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990”; and

(b) subsection (7) (consultation before making orders under subsection (4)) shall be omitted.

(4) Part II of Schedule 1 to this Act shall have effect in place of Part II of Schedule 5 to the principal Act (membership of Family Practitioner Committees).

(5) At the end of the day appointed for the coming into force of this subsection, any person who became a member of a Family Practitioner Committee under Part II of Schedule 5 to the principal Act (including a person holding office as chairman of such a committee) shall cease to be a member and, accordingly, in the case of a chairman, shall also cease to be chairman.

(6) Nothing in this section shall cause a Family Health Services Authority to be included in the expression “health authority”, as defined in the principal Act.