Schedule 4 - Repeals
Health (Wales) Bill
9:30 am
Mr Bill Wiggin (Leominster, Conservative)
I hope that the Minister has a copy of the National Health Service Act 1977 to hand: if not, it retails at £13. With my anorak firmly on, I apologise to the Committee, but admit that I checked the provisions last night. In chapter 49 of the 1977 Act I found the reference to
''section 18(1A), the ''or'' at the end of paragraph (a) and paragraph (c)''.
Off I galloped, but found no section 18(1A)(c). It is not there, which, as I am sure you can imagine, Mr. Griffiths, created a crisis for me. There I was checking the wording: I found section 18(1A)(a) and (b), but found no more. Can the Minister explain what has happened to the missing bit? [Interruption.] I have some more, so perhaps I should carry on. I galloped on to section 98(2A) and found that that was not there either. It is either my fault for looking it up wrongly, or copious notes are winging their way to the Minister. One can only hope. If I cannot find the specified provisions in the 1977Act, it is difficult to approve the schedule.