Community Health Councils (Access to Information) Act 1988
| Year | 1988 |
Community Health Councils(Access to Information) Act1988
1988 CHAPTER 24
An Act to provide for access by the public to meetings of, and to certain documents and information relating to, Community Health Councils and committees of those Councils and for related purposes.
[29th July 1988]
B e it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows—
1 Access to meetings and documents of Community Health Councils.
(1) Sections 100A to 100D of the Local Government Act 1972 (access to meetings and documents of certain authorities) shall apply to a Community Health Council established in accordance with section 20 of the National Health Service Act 1977 as they apply to a principal council within the meaning of Part VA of the said Act of 1972, but subject to the following modifications, namely—
(a) the reference in section 100A(6)(c) to premises not belonging to a principal council shall be construed as a reference to premises not under the control of the Community Health Council;
(b) the proper officer for the purposes of sections 100B, 100C and 100D shall be a person appointed for the purpose by the Community Health Council; and
(c) the references in sections 100C(1) and 100D(2) to the periods of six and four years shall be construed as references to the periods of three years and two years respectively.
(2) Those sections of the said Act of 1972 shall apply also in relation to a community health committee as they apply to a principal council within the meaning of Part VA of that Act but subject to subsection (1)(c) above and to the following further modifications, namely—
(a) section 100A(6)(a) shall be taken to have been complied with if the notice is given by posting it at the time there mentioned at the offices of every constituent Council and, if the meeting of the committee is to be held at premises other than the offices of such a Council, at those premises;
(b) for the purposes of section 100A(6)(c), premises under the control of a constituent Council shall be treated as belonging to the committee;
(c) for the purposes of sections 100B(1), 100C(1) and 100D(1), offices of any constituent Council shall be treated as offices of the committee; and
(d) the proper officer, for the purposes of sections 100B, 100C and 100D, shall be a person appointed for the purpose by the constituent Council.
(3) In this section ‘community health committee’ means a committee appointed by a Community Health Council or a joint committee appointed by two or more such Councils and ‘constituent Council’, in relation to such a committee, means the Council or Councils by whom the committee was appointed.
(4) In section 100H of the said Act of 1972 (supplemental provisions and offences)—
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