Health Service Joint Consultative Committees (Access to Information) Act 1986

1 Interpretation.

(1) In this Act—

• "joint committee " means—

  (a)

  a joint .consultative committee appointed pursuant to an order under section 22 of the [1977 c. 49.] National Health Service Act 1977 or deemed by virtue of such order to be so appointed, or ,

  (b)

  a sub-committee of such a committee, or

  (c)

  a joint sub-committee of two or more such committees; and

• " local authority " means a county council, a district council, a London borough council, the Common Council of the City of London or the Inner London Education Authority.

(2) Any reference in this Act to a constituent authority shall be construed, in relation to a joint committee, as a reference to a District Health Authority, Family Practitioner Committee or local authority which—

(a) if the committee in question is a joint consultative committee, is represented on that committee, or

(b) if the committee in question is a sub-committee or joint sub-committee, is represented on the joint consultative committee, or (as the case may be) one of the joint consultative committees, that appointed that committee.