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Clause 7, page 6, line 14, leave out "his functions relating to" and insert "the duty imposed on him by section 1(1) of the principal Act to secure the effective provision of".
§ LORD ABERDAREMy Lords, I beg to move that this House doth agree with the Commons in the said Amendment. The power of the Secretary of State under Clause 7(1) to direct an R.H.A. to exercise his functions and to further 1762 direct that such functions should be exercisable by an A.H.A. expressly excludes (as it stands at present) "his functions relating to the services mentioned in subsection (3)". Those are the family practitioner services.
The Secretary of State, however, has certain functions such as his function, under Clause 43 (1) of the Bill, of snaking accommodation in health centres available to those providing general practitioner services, which could be construed as "relating to" Part IV services but which it is intended should be exercisable by R.H.A.s and A.H.A.s. The present wording of the Bill inadvertently prevents such functions being so exercised and the Amendment remedies this defect. I beg to move.
§ Moved, That this House doth agree with the Commons in the said Amendment.—(Lord Aberdare.)
§ On Question, Motion agreed to.