§ The Department of Health shall, before the expiration of the scond fixed grant period, in consultation with such associations of local authorities as appear to them to be concerned and with any local authority with whom consultation appears to them to be desirable, cause an investigation to be made into the working of the rules contained in Parts III and IV of the Fifth Schedule to this Act, and shall cause a report of the result of the investigation to he laid before Parliament.—[The Lord Advocate.]
§ Brought up, and read the First and Second time.