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Section 12.
SCHEDULE 5Amendments of National Health Service Act 1977
1The [1977 c. 49.] National Health Service Act 1977 shall have effect subject to the amendments specified in this Schedule.
2In section 22 (co-operation between health authorities and local authorities)—
(a)the following subsection shall be inserted after subsection (3)—
“(3A)It is the Secretary of State's duty by order to secure as respects each joint consultative committee that it includes additional members appointed in a manner specified in the order by voluntary organisations.”;
(b)in subsection (4)(e), for the words " not members of the authorities represented by the joint consultative committee " there shall be substituted the words " neither—
(i)members of the authorities represented by the joint consultative committee ; nor
(ii)appointed by virtue of an order under subsection (3A) above " ; and
(c)the following subsection shall be inserted after subsection (5)—
“(6)Without prejudice to the generality of section 126(4) below, the power to make an order conferred by subsection (3A) above may be exercised so as to make different provision for England and Wales and different provision for different communities in either.”
3In section 98 (accounts and audit)—
(a)the following paragraph shall be inserted after subsection (1)(c) —
“(cc)every Family Practitioner Committee;”;
(b)in subsection (4)(a), for the words " those Authorities, special authorities and special trustees " there shall be substituted the words " the bodies mentioned in subsection (1) above, other than the Dental Estimates Board ".
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