Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Act 1997
8.—(1) Section 18 of the Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Act 1997(1) (accounts of Council and Boards) is amended as follows.
(2) After subsection (7) there is inserted–
“(8) Subsections (2) to (5) and (7) do not apply in relation to the National Board for Scotland and instead–
(a)that Board shall send its statement of accounts prepared under subsection (1)(b) to the Scottish Ministers by such time as they may direct;
(b)the Scottish Ministers shall send the statement of accounts to the Auditor General for Scotland for auditing; and
(c)the Scottish Ministers shall lay before the Scottish Parliament copies of the report submitted by that Board under subsection (6).”
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