Health Services Act 1980

8 Dissolution of the Central Health Services Council. E+W+S

(1) On the passing of this Act the Central Health Services Council (which under section 6(1) of the Act of 1977 advises the Secretary of State on general matters relating to the health service) shall cease to exist.

(2) The standing advisory committees constituted under subsection (3) of that section shall continue in being but shall consist wholly of members appointed by the Secretary of State after consultation with such representative organisations as he recognises for the purpose and the persons who, immediately before the passing of this Act, were members of those committees but not of the Council shall be deemed to have been appointed under this subsection.

(3) In consequence of the foregoing provisions of this section so much of section 6 of and Schedule 4 to the Act of 1977 as relates to the Council shall cease to have effect and the following amendments shall be made in that section, that is to say—

X1 (a) at the end of subsection (3), there shall be added the words “ and the provisions of Schedule 4 to this Act shall have effect in relation to such committees ”; and

X1 (b) for subsection (4), there shall be substituted the following—

“(4) Any committee so constituted shall consist of persons appointed by the Secretary of State after consultation with such representative organisations as he recognises for that purpose.”.

Editorial Information

X1 The text of ss. 1(7), 3, 5, 6(1)(3)(4), 7, 8(3), 9(5)(a)(b), 20, 23, and 25(2)-(4) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.