The Local Health Boards (Constitution, Membership and Procedures) (Wales) Regulations 2009

PART 1 Introduction

Title, commencement and application

1.  The title of these Regulations is the Local Health Boards (Constitution, Membership and Procedures) (Wales) Regulations 2009 and they come into force on 1 June 2009.

Interpretation

2.  The following words and phrases have the following meanings —

• “the Act” (“y Ddeddf”) means the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006;

• “associate member” (“aelod cyswllt”) means a person who is appointed in accordance with regulation 4(3) or 4(4).

• “Board” (“Bwrdd”) means a Local Health Board;

• “Board’s area” (“ardal y Bwrdd”) means the area for which a Board is established as set out—

  (a)

  in the Local Health Boards (Establishment and Dissolution) (Wales) Order 2009(1);

  (b)

  in relation to Powys Local Health Board, in the Local Health Boards (Establishment) (Wales) Order 2003(2),

  as such area may be varied from time to time;

• “health service body” (“corff gwasanaeth iechyd”) means a Special Health Authority, Strategic Health Authority, Local Health Board, NHS Trust, NHS Foundation Trust or Primary Care Trust;

• “local authority” (“awdurdod lleol”) means a county or county borough council in Wales;

• “member” (“aelod”) means a chair, vice-chair, officer or non-officer member of a Board;

• “non-officer member” (“aelod nad yw'n swyddog”) means a member of a Board who holds any office set out in regulation 3(4);

• “officer member” (“swyddog-aelod”) means a member of a Board who holds any office set out in regulation 3(2);

• “shadow period” (“cyfnod cysgodol”) means the period between the date of the coming into force of these Regulations and 1 October 2009;

• “trade union” (“undeb llafur”) has the meaning assigned to it in section 1 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992(3) and which is registered on the list of trade unions held by the Certification Officer in accordance with section 2 of that Act;

• “voluntary organisations” (“sefydliadau gwirfoddol”) has the meaning assigned to it in section 206(1) of the Act.

(1)

S.I. 2009 No. 778 (W.66).

(2)

S.I. 2003 No.148 (W.18) as amended by S.I. 2009/778 (W.66).

(3)

1992 c. 52.