The National Health Service (Variation of the Areas of Greater Glasgow and Highland Health Boards) (Scotland) Order 2006

PART 2 VARIATION OF HEALTH BOARD AREAS

Variation of the areas of Greater Glasgow and Highland Health Boards, and termination of functions of Argyll and Clyde Health Board.

3.—(1) The area for which–

(a) Highland Health Board is constituted(1) is varied to include such of the area for which Argyll and Clyde Health Board is constituted as is by reference to the local government areas described in Schedule 1 to the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 (“the 1994 Act”)(2), situated in the area of Argyll and Bute Council; and

(b) Greater Glasgow Health Board is constituted is varied to include such of the area for which Argyll and Clyde Health Board is constituted as is not by reference to the local government areas described in Schedule 1 to the 1994 Act situated in the area of Argyll and Bute Council,

and the functions of Argyll and Clyde Health Board are terminated for the area for which it is constituted; and accordingly the Areas Order is amended as provided in paragraph (2).

(2) In the Schedule to the Areas Order–

(a) the entry for Argyll and Clyde is omitted;

(b) in the entry for Greater Glasgow in Column 2 after “Eastwood” insert–

• “, Inverclyde, Renfrew and (excluding so much of that district as is by reference to the local government areas described in Schedule 1 to the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994, situated in the area of Argyll and Bute Council) Dumbarton”; and

(c) in the entry for Highland in Column 2 after “Region” insert–

• “, the district of Argyll and so much of the district of Dumbarton as is, by reference to the local government areas described in Schedule 1 to the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994, situated in the area of Argyll and Bute Council”.

(3) References to an area in this article, or in the Areas Order as amended by this article, by reference to a local government area described in an enactment are by reference to that enactment as enacted and not by reference to that enactment as subsequently amended or repealed.

(1)

Argyll and Clyde, Greater Glasgow and Highland Health Boards are constituted by S.I. 1974/267.

(2)

1994 c. 39.