Statutory Instruments
National Health Service, England
Made
14th October 2010
Laid before Parliament
21st October 2010
Coming into force
1st December 2010
The Secretary of State for Health makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 272(7) and (8) of, and paragraph 4(1)(a) of Schedule 3 to the National Health Service Act 2006(1).
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Primary Care Trusts (Membership, Procedure and Administration Arrangements) Amendment Regulations 2010 and shall come into force on 1st December 2010.
2.—(1) In regulation 5 (disqualification for appointment: chairman and non-officer members) of the Primary Care Trusts (Membership, Procedure and Administration Arrangements) Regulations 2000(2)—
(a)omit paragraph (1)(e)(i); and
(b)in paragraph (4)(a), omit “another trust, another trust’s Executive Committee or”.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health
Simon Burns
Minister of State,
Department of Health
14th October 2010
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Primary Care Trusts (Membership, Procedure and Administration Arrangements) Regulations 2000. They remove the disqualification which prevents a person who is a chairman or member of one Primary Care Trust or the Executive Committee of such a trust from being appointed as the chairman or a non-officer member of another Primary Care Trust.
A full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no impact on the private or voluntary sectors is foreseen.
2006 c. 41. By virtue of section 271 of the National Health Service Act 2006, the powers of the Secretary of State under that Act, as exercised in making these regulations, are exercisable only in relation to England.
S.I. 2000/89, as amended by S.I. 2002/2469 and S.I. 2003/1616; there are other amending instruments but none is relevant.