Health Boards (Membership and Elections) (Scotland) Act 2009

6 Termination of pilot scheme

(1) The pilot order is revoked on the day falling 7 years after the earliest Health Board election to be held in a Health Board area specified in the pilot order (but this does not affect Ministers' power to revoke the order on an earlier date).

(2) If—

(a) the pilot order is revoked before a roll-out order is made, or

(b) a question of whether to resolve to approve a draft roll-out order is put to a meeting of the Scottish Parliament but is not agreed by the Parliament,

then, on the day the pilot order is revoked or on the day after the question is put (as the case may be), subsections (3) and (4) come into force.

(3) The following provisions of this Act are repealed—

(a) section 1(6) and (8),

(b) sections 2 to 5,

(c) subsections (1) and (2) of this section (except in so far as bringing this subsection and subsection (4) into force), and

(d) section 7,

and the amendments of the 1978 Act made by provisions so repealed are accordingly to cease to have effect.

(4) Paragraph 2 of Schedule 1 to the 1978 Act is amended as follows—

(a) in sub-paragraph (1)—

(i) after sub-paragraph (a) insert “and”,

(ii) sub-paragraph (c) and the word “and” immediately preceding it are repealed,

(b) for sub-paragraphs (3) and (4) substitute—

“(3) At least one councillor member must be appointed for each local authority whose area is wholly or partly within the area of the Board.”.