54.This section gives the Scottish Ministers power(24) to confer functions relating to the examination service and the retention service on special health boards, the Common Services Agency (typically known as NHS National Services Scotland or NSS) and Healthcare Improvement Scotland (HIS). NHS National Education Scotland (NES), for example, is the special health board with responsibility for providing education and training relating to the health service, including trauma training. This power might be used to ensure that it can also provide education and training to healthcare professionals in relation to the functions conferred by the Act (which are not, as already noted, exercised entirely for health purposes).
Exercisable by regulations, which are subject to the affirmative procedure if they modify the text of any Act and otherwise to the negative procedure.
