National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1972

29 Transfer of staff of Regional Hospital Boards and Boards of Management

(1) Persons employed immediately before the appointed day by a Regional Hospital Board or Board of Management shall on that day be transferred—

(a) if they were appointed by a Regional Hospital Board, to the employment of a Health Board or the Agency in accordance with a scheme made under this section ;

(b) if they were appointed by a Board of Management wholly or mainly for the purposes of a particular hospital or hospitals, to the employment of the Health Board which is responsible for the control of that hospital or those hospitals or of the Agency in accordance with a scheme made under this section;

(c) if they were appointed by a Board of Management wholly or mainly for the purposes of two or more hospitals for the control of which two or more Health Boards are responsible, to the employment of such one of the Health Boards or of the Agency as may be determined in accordance with a scheme made under this section.

(2) The Secretary of State shall have power to make a direction requiring such Regional Hospital Board or Boards, as may be specified in the direction, to make a scheme, after consultation with such Health Board or Boards as may be so specified, and with the Agency, if so specified, providing for the transfer to the employment of such Health Board or Boards as may be named in the scheme, or to the employment of the Agency if so named, of persons employed by the Regional Hospital Board or Board of Management, for such purposes as may be specified in the direction or in such capacities or classes as may be so specified.