SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 4Amendments of the National Health Service Act 2006

PART 1The health service in England

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1

Section 12A (direct payments for health care) is amended as follows.

2

In subsection (1) after “The Secretary of State” insert “, the Board, a clinical commissioning group or a local authority”.

3

In subsection (2)—

a

for paragraph (a) substitute—

a

anything that the Secretary of State or a local authority has a duty or power to provide or arrange under section 2A or 2B or Schedule 1;

b

after that paragraph insert—

aa

anything that the Board or a clinical commissioning group may or must arrange for the provision of under this Act or any other enactment.

c

omit paragraphs (b) and (c).

4

In subsection (4)—

a

for “a Primary Care Trust” substitute “a clinical commissioning group”,

b

for “the trust” substitute “the group”, and

c

at the end insert “; and the references in this subsection to a clinical commissioning group are, so far as necessary for the purposes of regulations under subsection (2E) of that section, to be read as references to the Board.”

5

In subsection (5), omit “or under regulations under subsection (4)”.

6

After subsection (6) insert—

7

In this section and sections 12B to 12D, “local authority” has the same meaning as in section 2B.