National Health Service Contributions Act 1958
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National Health Service Contributions Act, 1958
(6 & 7 Eliz. 2) CHAPTER 20
An Act to increase the rates of national health service contributions, and for purposes connected therewith.
Most Gracious Sovereign,
We , Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom in Parliament assembled, towards providing such sums as may be required for the national health service in England and Wales, and in Scotland, have freely and voluntarily resolved to give and grant unto Your Majesty the increased contributions hereinafter mentioned; and do therefore most humbly beseech Your Majesty that it may be enacted, and be 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 Higher rates of national health service contributions.
(1) In the National Health Service Contributions Act, 1957 (in this Act referred to as ‘the principal Act’), the provisions set out in the Schedule to this Act shall be substituted, as from the appointed day, for the provisions set out in the First Schedule to that Act (which specifies the rates of national health service contributions).
(2) As from the appointed day, any reference in the principal Act to a column or paragraph of the First Schedule to that Act shall be construed as a reference to the corresponding column or paragraph of the provisions substituted by the preceding subsection for the provisions set out in that Schedule.
(3) Subsection (6) of section three of the principal Act (which relates to the Crown) and section five of the principal Act (which relates to Northern Ireland) shall apply in relation to this Act as they apply in relation to that Act.
(4) There shall be paid out of moneys provided by Parliament any increase attributable to the provisions of this Act in—
(a ) the administrative expenses so payable under subsection (3) of section four of the principal Act;
(b ) the sums so payable under subsection (4) of that section (which relates to financial adjustments with Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man).
(5) In this Act ‘the appointed day’ means such day as the Minister of Health and the Secretary of State may jointly appoint by order made by statutory instrument.
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