Scottish Statutory Instruments
2006 No. 528
TRANSPORT
The Regional Transport Strategies (Health Boards) (Scotland) Order 2006
Made 31st October 2006
Laid before the Scottish Parliament 2nd November 2006
Coming into force 1st January 2007

The Scottish Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 8(3) of the Transport (Scotland) Act 2005 and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:
2005 asp 12.

Citation and commencement
1. This Order may be cited as the Regional Transport Strategies (Health Boards) (Scotland) Order 2006 and shall come into force on 1st January 2007.

Interpretation
2. In this Order “Transport Partnership” means a Transport Partnership established by the Regional Transport Partnerships (Establishment, Constitution and Membership) (Scotland) Order 2005.
S.S.I. 2005/622.

Regional transport strategies and Health Boards
3. For the purposes of section 8(2) of the Transport (Scotland) Act 2005 (duty of Health Boards as respects regional transport strategies), each Health Board set out in column 1 of the Schedule is specified in relation to the (or, as the case may be, each) Transport Partnership which is set out in the corresponding entry in column 2 of the Schedule.
TAVISH SCOTT
A member of the Scottish Executive
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
31st October 2006

SCHEDULE HEALTH BOARDS AND REGIONAL TRANSPORT PARTNERSHIPS
Article 3
Column 1	Column 2
Health Board	Transport Partnership(s)
Ayrshire & Arran	West of Scotland
Borders	South-East of Scotland
Dumfries and Galloway	South-West of Scotland
Fife	South-East of Scotland
Forth Valley	Tayside and Central The name of the region was changed from Central and Tay to Tayside and Central by the Transport Partnership in accordance with the procedure contained in article 3(4) of S.S.I. 2005/622. South-East of Scotland
Grampian	Highlands and Islands North-East of Scotland
Greater Glasgow	West of Scotland
Highland	Highlands and Islands West of Scotland
Lanarkshire	West of Scotland
Lothian	South-East of Scotland
Orkney	Highlands and Islands
Shetland	Shetland
Tayside	Tayside and Central
Western Isles	Highlands and Islands

(This note is not part of the Order)
Section 8(2) of the Transport (Scotland) Act 2005 places each Health Board under a duty to, so far as possible, perform those of its functions and activities which relate to or which affect or are affected by transport consistently with the transport strategy of the (or, as the case may be, each) Transport Partnership in relation to which it is specified.
This Order, made in exercise of the powers contained in section 8(3) of the Act, specifies, as respects each Health Board, which Transport Partnership’s transport strategy is, or which Transport Partnerships' transport strategies are, for the purposes of section 8(2), the strategy or strategies consistently with which the Board is to perform its functions.