Schedule 5 - Amendments relating to local health boards
NHS Reform and Health Care Professions Bill
3:00 pm
Mr Don Touhig (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Welsh Office; Islwyn, Labour/Co-operative)
Amendments Nos. 117 to 121 are essentially technical and consequential to existing legislation to cater for the creation of local health boards. The overall effect is to insert references to local health boards into existing legislation, so that the boards may exercise the appropriate powers and functions of their predecessor bodies and be subject to the appropriate duties existing under current legislation. These technical amendments also guarantee to the boards the necessary status to fulfil their role; the specific role and functions are a matter for the Assembly. I commend them to the Committee.