Scottish Statutory Instruments
National Health Service
Representation Of The People
Made
14th June 2009
The Scottish Ministers make the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 4(1) of the Health Boards (Membership and Elections) (Scotland) Act 2009(1) and all other powers enabling them to do so.
1. This Order may be cited as the Health Boards (Membership and Elections) (Scotland) Act 2009 (Commencement No. 1) Order 2009.
2. The day appointed for the coming into force of sections 1 to 3 of the Health Boards (Membership and Elections) (Scotland) Act 2009 for the areas for which—
(a)Fife Health Board; and
(b)Dumfries and Galloway Health Board,
are constituted(2), is 24th June 2009.
NICOLA STURGEON
A member of the Scottish Executive
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
14th June 2009
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order appoints 24th June 2009 as the day on which sections 1 to 3 of the Health Boards (Membership and Elections) (Scotland) Act 2009 (“the Act”) come into force in respect of Fife and Dumfries and Galloway Health Board areas for the purpose of piloting Health Board elections in those areas.
Section 4(1) of the Act provides that the Scottish Ministers may, by Order, appoint a day on which sections 1 to 3 of the Act are to come into force in respect of the Health Board areas specified in the Order. This Order is defined as the pilot order in the Act. By virtue of section 4(2) of the Act, Scottish Ministers may make one pilot order only. This Order is the pilot order in terms of the Act.
Fife Health Board and Dumfries and Galloway Health Board are constituted by the National Health Service (Constitution of Health Boards) (Scotland) Order 1974 (S.I. 1974/267), as amended by S.S.I. 2003/217 and 2006/32.