Part IThe National Health Service: England and Wales
Further amendments of the principal Act
22The Medical Practices Committee
(1)
Section 7 of the principal Act (the Medical Practices Committee) shall be amended in accordance with this section.
(2)
At the beginning of subsection (1) there shall be inserted “Subject to subsection (1A) below”.
(3)
After subsection (1) there shall be inserted the following subsection—
“(1A)
The Secretary of State may by order make such modifications as he considers appropriate of paragraphs (a) and (b) of subsection (1) above.”
(4)
At the end of the section there shall be added the following subsection—
“(4)
After consulting the Medical Practices Committee, the Secretary of State may give the Committee directions with respect to the exercise of its functions; and it shall be the duty of the Committee to comply with any such directions.”