SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 8Minor and consequential amendments

The 1977 Act

4(1)Section 97A (financial duties of Health Authorities and Special Health Authorities) is amended as follows.

(2)In subsection (1)—

(a)after “duty of” there is inserted “every Strategic Health Authority and of”,

(b)for “the Health Authority” there is substituted “the Authority”, and

(c)in paragraph (a), after “subsection” there is inserted “(A1) or”.

(3)In each of subsections (3), (6), (7) and (8), before “Health Authority”, in each place where it occurs, there is inserted “Strategic Health Authority,”.

(4)In subsection (9)—

(a)in paragraph (a), and in the words following paragraph (c), before “Health Authority” there is inserted “Strategic Health Authority,”, and

(b)in each of paragraphs (b)(i) and (c)(i), before “Health Authority” there is inserted “Strategic Health Authority or”.