Appointment and term of office
6.—(1) The executive directors of a NHS trust shall include–
(a)the chief officer;
(b)the chief finance officer;
(c)except in the case of a NHS trust which does not provide services directly to patients
(i)medical or a dental practitioner; and
(ii)registered nurse or midwife within the meaning of section 10 (7) of the Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Act 1979(1).
(2) Where one person is appointed jointly with one or more others to a post in a NHS trust the holder of which qualifies as such to be an executive director, those persons shall become or be appointed jointly as an executive director, and shall count for the purposes of these Regulations as one person.
(3) Subject to regulation 7, an executive director of a NHS trust who is not the chief officer or chief finance officer shall hold office as such during such period as is specified on appointment but for no longer than the period during which they hold a post in the NHS trust.
(4) An executive director of a NHS trust, other than the chief officer and the chief finance officer, shall on the termination of the period of their appointment as such a director be eligible for re-appointment.
(5) An executive director of a NHS trust who holds such office by virtue of being the chief officer or chief finance officer, of the trust shall hold such office for so long as they are chief officer or as the case may be chief finance officer, and shall cease to hold such office forthwith and without notice upon ceasing to be chief officer or the chief finance officer.