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National Health Service Act 1977

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24Overseas aid

Each health authority and the Public Health Laboratory Service Board has power—

(a)with the Secretary of State's consent, to enter into and carry out agreements with the relevant Minister under which, at the expense of that Minister, the authority or board acts as the instrument by means of which he furnishes technical assistance in the exercise of the power conferred on him by section 1(1) of the [1966 c. 21.] Overseas Aid Act 1966;

(b)with the consent of the Secretary of State and the relevant Minister, to enter into and carry out agreements which under the authority or board furnishes, for any purpose specified in that section 1(1), technical assistance (excluding financial assistance) in any country or territory outside the United Kingdom against reimbursement to the authority or board of the cost of furnishing the assistance.

In this section " the relevant Minister " means the Minister of the Crown by whom is exercisable the power conferred on the Minister of Overseas Development by that section 1(1) as originally enacted.

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