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.