National Health Service (Amendment) Act 1949

29 Minor amendments and repeal.

(1) The amendments specified in Part I and Part II of the Schedule to this Act, being amendments of a minor character, shall be made in the Act of 1946 and the Act of 1947, respectively :

Provided that the amendments of the Fifth Schedule to the Act of 1946 and the Sixth Schedule to the Act of 1947 relating to the Chairman of an Executive Council shall, except in a case where the office of such a chairman is vacant at the passing of this Act, only take effect, in relation to each Executive Council, when the appointment of the person holding office as chairman at the date of the passing of this Act comes to an end.

(2) Subsection (2) of section fourteen of the Midwives Act, 1918, as amended by subsection (2) of section two of the Mid-wives Act, 1926, (which requires a medical practitioner called in to assist a midwife in case of emergency to submit within two months his claim for the payment of a fee by the local health authority) shall be amended by the substitution for the words " two months " of the words " three months."

(3) Section three of the Cancer Act, 1939 (which empowers the Minister to lend money to the National Radium Trust) shall cease to have effect.

(4) In the application of subsection (2) of this section to Scotland, for the references to subsection (2) of section fourteen of the Midwives Act, 1918, and to subsection (2) of section two of the Midwives Act, 1926, there shall be respectively substituted references to subsection (2) of section twenty-two of the Midwives (Scotland) Act, 1915, and to subsection (2) of section four of the Midwives (Scotland) Act, 1927.