Part I The National Health Service: England and Wales

Local management

2 Family Health Services Authorities.

1

On and after the day appointed for the coming into force of this subsection—

a

each existing Family Practitioner Committee shall be known as a Family Health Services Authority; and

b

any reference in any enactment to a Family Practitioner Committee shall be construed as a reference to a Family Health Services Authority;

and the generality of this subsection is not affected by any express amendment made by this Act.

2

In subsection (1) above “enactment” means—

a

an enactment passed before the day appointed for the coming into force of subsection (1) above; and

b

an enactment comprised in subordinate legislation made before that day.

3

In section 10 of the principal Act (Family Health Services Authorities)—

a

for the words “Schedule 5 to this Act” there shall be substituted “Schedule 1 to the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990”; and

b

subsection (7) (consultation before making orders under subsection (4)) shall be omitted.

4

Part II of Schedule 1 to this Act shall have effect in place of Part II of Schedule 5 to the principal Act (membership of Family Practitioner Committees).

5

At the end of the day appointed for the coming into force of this subsection, any person who became a member of a Family Practitioner Committee under Part II of Schedule 5 to the principal Act (including a person holding office as chairman of such a committee) shall cease to be a member and, accordingly, in the case of a chairman, shall also cease to be chairman.

6

Nothing in this section shall cause a Family Health Services Authority to be included in the expression “health authority”, as defined in the principal Act.