Clause 4 - Personal medical services, personal dental services and local pharmaceutical services
NHS Reform and Health Care Professions Bill
4:30 pm
Mr John Hutton (Minister of State, Department of Health; Barrow and Furness, Labour)
I beg to move amendment No. 92, in page 3, line 41, leave out ' ''behalf),'' ' and insert ' ''functions),'' '.
This is another minor, consequential amendment. Clause 4 removes the current bar on the Secretary of State delegating his own powers in respect of PMS and PDS pilot schemes by inserting a new subsection (1A) into section 9 of the National Health Service (Family Care) Act 1997. However, subsection (1A) does not take account of the fact that section 9(1) was amended by the Health Act 1999. In the amended section 9(1), the words ''functions on his behalf'' were replaced by ''his functions''. Amendment No. 92 corrects that minor drafting error, so that the new subsection (1A) applies the wording of the existing section 9(1A) as amended by the Health Act.
Amendment agreed to.
Question proposed, That the clause, as amended, stand part of the Bill.