The Public Bodies (Admission to Meetings) (National Health Service Trusts) Order 1997

Statutory Instruments

1997 No. 2763

LOCAL GOVERNMENT, ENGLAND AND WALES

LOCAL GOVERNMENT, SCOTLAND

The Public Bodies (Admission to Meetings) (National Health Service Trusts) Order 1997

Made

20th November 1997

Laid before Parliament

20th November 1997

Coming into force

6th February 1998

The Secretary of State for Health, as respects England and Wales, and the Secretary of State for Scotland, as respects Scotland, in exercise of powers conferred by section 2(3) of the Public Bodies (Admission to Meetings) Act 1960(1) and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Public Bodies (Admission to Meetings) (National Health Service Trusts) Order 1997 and shall come into force on the day after the day on which it is approved by resolution of each House of Parliament.

Amendment of Schedule to the Public Bodies (Admission to Meetings) Act 1960

2.—(1) The Schedule to the Public Bodies (Admission to Meetings) Act 1960 (bodies to which that Act applies) shall be amended as follows.

(2) After paragraph 1(k), there shall be added the following sub-paragraph—

“(l) National Health Service trusts established under section 5(1) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990.”.

(3) After paragraph 2(d), there shall be added the following sub-paragraph—

“(dd) National Health Service trusts established under section 12A of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978(2).”.

Frank Dobson

Secretary of State for Health

20th November 1997

Sam Galbraith

Minister for Health, Scottish Office

St. Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

20th November 1997

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Public Bodies (Admission to Meetings) Act 1960 so that National Health Service trusts in England, Wales and Scotland are added to the Schedule to the Act. That Schedule specifies the bodies whose meetings are to be open to the public as provided for in the Act.

(1)

1960 c. 67.

(2)

Section 12A was inserted by the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19), section 31.