Section 18 of the 1949 Act (which enables officers of a hospital to which the section applies to be admitted to participate in superannuation benefits provided under section 67(1) of the 1946 Act in like manner as officers of Regional Hospital Boards) shall be extended so that the hospitals to which the section applies shall include a hospital (not vested in the Minister) which is used, in pursuance of arrangements made by the governing body of the hospital with the Board of Governors of a teaching hospital, for the provision of hospital and specialist services; and, accordingly, in subsection (4) of the said section 18, after the words " Regional Hospital Board ", there shall be inserted the words " or the Board of Governors of a teaching hospital ".
This section does not apply to Scotland.