Health and Social Care Act 2012 Explanatory Notes

Section 283 – Standing advisory committees

1489.This section provides for the repeal of section 250 of, and Schedule 19 to, the NHS Act 2006. Section 250 provides for the establishment of standing advisory committees. The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) is the only remaining standing advisory committee. It continued to be constituted under this section and will continue in existence as a result of the provision made in subsection (3) in respect of the National Health Service (Standing Advisory Committees) Order 1981.

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