National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006

182Community Health CouncilsE+W

(1)The Community Health Councils established for areas in Wales continue in existence.

(2)But the Welsh Ministers may by order—

(a)provide for Community Health Councils to be known by a different name,

(b)vary the area in Wales for which a Community Health Council is established,

(c)abolish a Community Health Council, or

(d)establish a new Community Health Council for an area in Wales.

(3)The Welsh Ministers must act under this section to ensure—

(a)that the areas for which Community Health Councils are at any time established together comprise the whole of Wales,

(b)that no part of an area for which a Community Health Council is established is separated from the rest of it by a territory not included in the area.

(4)Schedule 10 makes further provision about Community Health Councils continued in existence or established under this section.