Health Service Commissioners (Amendment) Act 1996

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(1) Section 14 of the 1993 Act (reports by Commissioners) shall be amended as follows.

(2) In subsection (1) for paragraph (c) there shall be substituted—

“(c) to the health service body who at the time the report is made provides the service, or has the function, in relation to which the complaint was made,”.

(3) In subsection (2)—

(a) the word “and” shall be inserted at the end of paragraph (a);

(b) paragraph (c) and the word “and” at the end of paragraph (b) shall be omitted.

(4) In subsection (3) for the words from “make a special report” to the end of the subsection there shall be substituted “lay before each House of Parliament a special report on the case.”

(5) For subsection (4) there shall be substituted—

“(4) Each of the Commissioners—

(a) shall annually lay before each House of Parliament a general report on the performance of his functions under this Act, and

(b) may from time to time lay before each House of Parliament such other reports with respect to those functions as he thinks fit.”