Citation and Commencement
1. This Order may be cited as the Public Appointments and Public Bodies etc. (Scotland) Act 2003 (Treatment of Office or Body as Specified Authority) Order 2010 and comes into force on the day after the day on which it was made.
Treatment as Specified Authority
2. The following bodies shall be treated, for the purposes of or in connection with any appointment to those bodies, as if each of them was a specified authority within the meaning of section 2(1) of the Public Appointments and Public Bodies etc. (Scotland) Act 2003 (the Commissioner’s functions):—
(a)Healthcare Improvement Scotland; and
(b)Social Care and Social Work Improvement Scotland.
SHONA ROBISON
Authorised to sign on behalf of the Scottish Ministers
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
17th March 2010