# The Health Act 1999 (Supplementary, Consequential etc. Provisions) Order 2000, Paragraph 18


(1) The Disabled Persons (Services, Consultation and Representation) Act 1986 is amended as follows.
(2) In section 2 (rights of authorised representatives of disabled persons)–
(a) in subsection (5)(a), after “the 1977 Act” there is inserted “, by a Primary Care Trust established under that Act”;
(b) in subsection (9), in the definition of “health authority”, in paragraph (a), for “or a Special Health Authority” there is substituted “ , a Special Health Authority or a Primary Care Trust”.
(3) In section 7 (persons discharged from hospital), in subsection (9), in the definition of “the managers”–
(a) in paragraph (a)(i), after “trust” there is inserted “or a Primary Care Trust”
(b) after paragraph (b) there is inserted the following paragraph–
“(bb) in relation to a hospital vested in a Primary Care Trust, means that trust;”.
(4) In section 16 (interpretation), in subsection (1), after the definition of “parental responsibility” there is inserted the following definition–
““Primary Care Trust” means a Primary Care Trust established under section 16A of the National Health Service Act 1977;”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/90/schedule/1/paragraph/18 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/health-act-1999-supplementary-consequential-etc-provisions-order-2000/schedule-1/paragraph-18
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