HC Deb 09 May 2000 vol 349 c803

Amendment made: No. 179, in page 65, line 12, at end insert— '(5A) The scheme may include provision—

  1. (a) varying or revoking any quality partnership scheme which only relates to the area of the authority, or combined area of the authorities, by which the scheme is made, or
  2. (b) varying any other quality partnership scheme to the extent that it so relates.
(5B) If provision is made under subsection (5A)(b) to vary the quality partnership scheme so that it no longer so relates, such of the authorities by which it was made as did not make the quality contracts scheme—
  1. (a) may (subject to the provision so made) vary it if they decide that it is appropriate to do so, or
  2. (b) may revoke it if all persons who have given an undertaking to provide a service to a standard specified in the scheme consent to the revocation of the scheme (which consent must not be unreasonably withheld);
and subsections (3) and (4) of section 102 apply to a variation or revocation under this subsection.'.—[Mr. Robert Ainsworth.]

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