National health service : a bill (as amended by standing committee C and on report) to provide for the establishment of a comprehensive health service for England and Wales, and for purposes connected therewith / presented by Mr. Bevan.

  • Parliament of the United Kingdom
Date:
1946
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Credit: National health service : a bill (as amended by standing committee C and on report) to provide for the establishment of a comprehensive health service for England and Wales, and for purposes connected therewith / presented by Mr. Bevan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Part VI. —cont. Inquiries. Recovery of of charges. 56 National Health Service. g & 10 GEO. 6. (e) for continuing in force anything done by or in rela- tion to the authority from whom any functions were so transferred; and (f) for the determination of questions arising in relation to the matters aforesaid. hi (2) Regulations may also provide— (a) for the transfer of property and liabilities to an Execu- tive Council from the insurance committee for any county or county borough comprised in the area of the Council, and for the amendment of any contracts r¢ or other documents relating thereto to such extent as appears to the Minister to be necessary for the purposes of such transfer; (0) for the transfer of property and liabilities to the Minister from the Dental Benefit Council constituted under the National Health Insurance Act, 1936, and the Committee approved for the purpose of adminis- tering ophthalmic benefit under that Act, and for the amendment of contracts and other documents to such extent as appears to the Minister to be neces- 2¢ sary for the purposes of such transfer; (c) for enabling any proceedings pending with respect - to any such property or liabilities to be carried on by or against the Executive Council or the Minister as the case may be; and 2! (d) for the determination of questions arising in relation to the matters aforesaid. This subsection shall apply in relation to a joint insurance committee constituted under section ninety-four of the National Health Insurance Act, 1936, as it applies in relation to an 3¢ insurance committee for a county or county borough, with the modification that the Executive Council to whom any property, right or liability is to be transferred, or by or against whom any proceedings are to be carried on, shall be determined by the Minister. 3! JA 69. The Minister may cause an inquiry to be held in any case where he deems it advisable to do so in connection with any matter arising under this Act, and subsections (2) to (5) of section two hundred and ninety of the Local Government Act, 1933, shall apply to any inquiry held under this Act: 4 Provided that no local authority shall be ordered to pay costs under subsection (4) of that section in the case of any inquiry unless it is a party thereto. 70. All charges recoverable under this Act by the Minister, a local health authority or any body constituted under this 4: Act, may, without prejudice to any other method of recovery, be recovered summarily as a civil debt.
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