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59In Schedule 5 (authorities), insert as Part I (and in substitution for the existing heading of the Schedule)— “Health Authorities and Special Health Authorities E+W
1A Health Authority shall consist of—
(a)a chairman appointed by the Secretary of State;
(b)not more than a prescribed number of persons (not being officers of the Health Authority) appointed by the Secretary of State; and
(c)a prescribed number of officers of the Health Authority.
2Regulations may provide that all or any of the persons appointed as members of a Health Authority under paragraph 1(b) above—
(a)must hold posts of a prescribed description; or
(b)must fulfil any other prescribed conditions.
3Regulations shall provide that each of the persons who is a member of a Health Authority under paragraph 1(c) above must either—
(a)hold an office of the Health Authority of a prescribed description; or
(b)be appointed by the chairman of the Health Authority and the persons appointed as members of the Health Authority under paragraph 1(b) above.
4Regulations may provide for a person of a prescribed description who is not an officer of a Health Authority to be treated for the purposes of this Part of this Schedule, and any other prescribed provision relating to members of (or of committees or sub-committees of) Health Authorities, as if he were such an officer.”
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