National Health Service (Appointment of Consultants) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2005

Amendment of regulation 5 of the principal Regulations

3.—(1) Regulation 5 of the principal Regulations (exempt appointments) is amended as follows.

(2) In paragraph (1), sub-paragraph (d), delete “an NHS trust,”.

(3) In paragraph (1), sub-paragraph (e)(ii) for “NHS trust” substitute “Authority”.

(4) In paragraph (1), sub-paragraph (g)—

(a) for “Public Health Laboratory Service Board” substitute “the Health Protection Agency (Yr Asiantaeth Diogelu Iechyd) established by the Health Protection Agency Act 2004”(1);

(b) for “or that Board” substitute “or Agency”.

(5) After paragraph (1)(g) insert—

“(h) a person who has been accredited as a consultant and has been appointed to a consultant post in the Defence Medical Services, and whose appointment to the staff of an Authority will be to a post in which the duties and location of the post are substantially the same as the duties and location of the post previously held in the Defence Medical Services;

(i) a person whose last employment by an Authority was in post as a consultant, the termination of which employment was by reason of retirement and who is appointed to a consultant post in the same Authority without any significant alteration in the duties of the post.”.

(1)

2004 c. 17.