Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 3:15 pm on 19 June 2003.
'(1) The Public Health Laboratory Service Board is abolished.
(2) Schedule [Amendments consequential on abolition of the Public Health Laboratory Service Board] has effect.
(3) On the day this section is commenced by order under section 177 the property, rights and liabilities of the Board vest in the Secretary of State.'.—[Mr. Hutton.]
Brought up, read the First and Second time, and added to the Bill.
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Secretary of State was originally the title given to the two officials who conducted the Royal Correspondence under Elizabeth I. Now it is the title held by some of the more important Government Ministers, for example the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
