National Health Service Act 2006

Section 250

SCHEDULE 19 Further provision about standing advisory committees

1 Regulations may make provision with respect to—

(a) the appointment,

(b) the tenure of office, and

(c) the vacation of office,

of the members of any standing advisory committee.

2 The Secretary of State must appoint a secretary to each standing advisory committee.

3 Each standing advisory committee may appoint such sub-committees as it considers appropriate, and as are approved by the Secretary of State, to consider and report on questions referred to it by the standing advisory committee.

4 Any such sub-committee may include persons who are not members of the standing advisory committee.

5 Each standing advisory committee must elect one of the members of the committee to be chairman of the committee.

6 Each standing advisory committee has power to regulate its own procedure.

7 The proceedings of a standing advisory committee are not invalidated by any vacancy in the membership of the committee, or by any defect in a member’s appointment or qualification.

8 The Secretary of State may make such payments in respect of expenses incurred by a standing advisory committee as he may determine.

9 The Secretary of State may pay to the members of a standing advisory committee, or a sub-committee of a standing advisory committee, such travelling and other allowances, including compensation for loss of remunerative time, as he may determine.

10 Payments under this Schedule are subject to such conditions as to records, certificates, or otherwise as the Secretary of State may determine.