National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1972

24 Dissolution of Boards, etc.

(1) On the appointed day the following bodies shall be dissolved—

(a) Regional Hospital Boards ;

(b) Boards of Management;

(c) Medical Education Committees;

(d) Executive Councils;

(e) the Scottish Health Services Council and standing advisory committees constituted under section 2(3) of the Act of 1947 ; and

(f) Joint Ophthalmic Services Committees.

(2) The Secretary of State may make orders containing such provision as he considers necessary or expedient in connection with the dissolution of the aforesaid bodies and the winding up of their affairs, including provision for the completion of any proceedings of any such body or any committee associated with it and for securing that anything done by or to such a body or committee should have effect as if done by or to a body or committee constituted under this Act.

(3) The Secretary of State shall prepare in respect of the last financial year of the bodies mentioned in subsection (1)(a), (b) and (d) above and in respect of any period between the end of that year and the appointed day, in such form as the Treasury may direct, summarised accounts of those bodies, and shall transmit them as soon as may be to the Comptroller and Auditor General who shall examine and certify them and lay copies of them together with his report thereon before both Houses of Parliament.