Health and Social Care Act 2012

Health Services and Public Health Act 1968 (c. 46)

12 (1) Section 63 (provision of instruction for officers of hospital authorities etc.) is amended as follows.

(2) In subsection (1)—

(a) after “servants of” insert “the National Health Service Commissioning Board or a clinical commissioning group,”,

(b) omit “a Strategic Health Authority,”, and

(c) omit “, Primary Care Trust”.

(3) In subsection (2)—

(a) in paragraph (a) before “or the council” insert “, the National Health Service Commissioning Board, a clinical commissioning group”, and

(b) in paragraph (b) for “a Primary Care Trust” substitute “the National Health Service Commissioning Board”.

(4) In subsection (5A)—

(a) omit “Strategic Health Authority” (in each place where it occurs), and

(b) omit “, Primary Care Trust” (in each place where it occurs).

(5) In subsection (5B)—

(a) omit paragraph (za), and

(b) omit paragraph (bb).