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Provide
for the Secretary of State to draw up a plan to prohibit piped
music |
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and the showing of television
programmes in the public areas of hospitals; |
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and to require the wearing
of headphones by persons listening to music in the |
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public areas of hospitals. |
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Be
it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty,
by and with the advice and |
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consent of the Lords Spiritual
and Temporal, and Commons, in this present |
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Parliament assembled,
and by the authority of the same, as follows:— |
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Piped
music and showing of television programmes plan |
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(1) |
The Secretary of State
shall, within two years of the coming into force of this |
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Act, draw up a plan setting
out the measures he will take to— |
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prohibit piped music and
the showing of television programmes in the |
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public areas of hospitals;
and |
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require the wearing of
headphones by persons listening to music in the |
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public areas of hospitals; |
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In preparing the plan the
Secretary of State shall consult— |
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such organisations as appear
to him to represent the interests of users |
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of, and workers in, hospitals;
and |
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such other persons as he
thinks fit. |
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The Secretary of State
shall— |
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as soon as is practicable
after completion of the plan, lay the plan before |
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each House of Parliament;
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consider any matters arising
from any debate that takes place in either |
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House of Parliament on the
plan. |
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The plan under section
1
shall provide exceptions for— |
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television programmes shown
for the purpose of safeguarding the |
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welfare of users of hospitals; |
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