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Amendments made: No. 24, in page 2, line 41, leave out "is amended as follows" and insert—
'(which provides for the establishment of Primary Care Trusts) is amended as provided in subsections (2) and (3)'.
No. 25, in page 3, line 4, at end insert—
'( ) Schedule 5A to the 1977 Act (which makes further provision about Primary Care Trusts) is amended as follows—
- (a) in paragraph 2(3)—
- (i) for "the Health Authority in whose area a Primary Care Trust is established to meet the costs" there is substituted "a Strategic Health Authority whose area includes any part of the area of a Primary Care Trust to meet costs", and
- (ii) in paragraph (b), after "meet" there is inserted "(or to contribute towards its meeting)",
- (b) in paragraph 2(4), for "the Health Authority in whose area a Primary Care Trust is established" there is substituted "a Strategic Health Authority whose area includes any part of the area of a Primary Care Trust",
- (c) in paragraph 16(1), for "the Health Authority within whose area the trust's area falls" there is substituted "each Strategic Health Authority whose area includes any part of the trust's area", and
- (d) in paragraph 16(3), for "the Health Authority within whose area the trust's area falls" there is substituted "any Strategic Health Authority whose area includes any part of the trust's area".'.—[Mr. Hutton.]