The National Health Service Trusts (Membership and Procedure) (Scotland) Regulations 1991

Appointment and functions of committees and sub-committees

11.—(1) Subject to regulation 12, the board of directors of an NHS trust may appoint committees consisting wholly or partly of directors of the trust or wholly of persons who are not directors of the trust.

(2) A committee appointed under this regulation may appoint sub-committees consisting wholly or partly of members of the committee (whether or not they include directors of the trust) or wholly of persons who are not members of the committee (whether or not they include directors of the trust).

(3) Subject to paragraph (4) and to regulation 12, the board of directors of an NHS trust may make arrangements for the exercise of any of its functions by a committee or sub-committee appointed by virtue of this regulation subject to such restrictions and conditions as the board may specify in Standing Orders under regulation 13(3) or otherwise.

(4) If the board of directors of an NHS Trust appoints a committee to exercise any of its functions as managers of a hospital in relation to the discharge of patients under Part V of the Mental Health (Scotland) Act 1984(1), that committee shall not include any employees of the Trust.

(1)

1984 c. 36; see section 125(1) for the definitions of “hospital” and “managers of a hospital” which were amended by the 1990 Act, Schedule 9, paragraph 28(4).