HL Deb 25 June 1973 vol 343 c1790

[No. 93]

Schedule 1, page 53 line 45, at end insert— ,or (ii) if there is no such Board or Committee, the Hospital Management Committees managing hospitals or groups of hospitals situated wholly or partly within that area;".

LORD ABERDARE

My Lords, paragraph 4(a) as drafted does not apply in the case of Leicester where it is intended to establish an Area Health Authority (Teaching). The Amendment is necessary to enable the extra members to be appointed after consultation with Leicester No. 1 Hospital Management Committee. I beg to move.

Moved, That this House doth agree with the Commons in the said Amendment.—(Lord Aberdare.)

On Question, Amendment agreed to.