It also requires the IBCA to provide annual reports;
allow the Secretary of State or the Minister for the Cabinet Office to make ‘transfer schemes’, which could enable the IBCA to take on some of the Scottish Government’s or NSS’s functions in relation to work of the existing infected blood support schemes, as well as their liabilities;
enable the Treasury to make regulations about taxes affected by a transfer scheme;
make consequential amendments to reflect the fact that the IBCA will take on the obligations of a public body under existing legislation;
enable the Scottish Ministers to lay affirmative regulations in the Scottish Parliament to make consequential amendments as a result of the IBCA being a new public authority; and
amend the extent clause of the Bill to extend these compensation provisions to the whole of the UK.