The Health Boards (Membership and Procedure) (No.2) Amendment Regulations 1999

Statutory Instruments

1999 No. 1132 (S.92)

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, SCOTLAND

The Health Boards (Membership and Procedure) (No.2) Amendment Regulations 1999

Made

9th April 1999

Laid before Parliament

13th April 1999

Coming into force

4th May 1999

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 2(10), 105(7) and 108(1) of, and by paragraph 11 of Schedule 1 to the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978(1), and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Health Boards (Membership and Procedure) (No.2) Amendment Regulations 1999 and shall come into force on 4th May 1999.

(2) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Health Boards (Membership and Procedure) (No.2) Regulations 1991(2).

Amendment to the principal Regulations

2.  In regulation 6 of the principal Regulations (disqualification) sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph (1) is omitted.

Sam Galbraith

Minister for Health Scottish Office

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

9th April 1999

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations further amend the Health Boards (Membership and Procedure) (No.2) Regulations 1991 (“the principal Regulations”). Regulation 6(1)(a) of the principal Regulations, which disqualifies a person from being a member of a Health Board if he is chairman or a director of an NHS trust, is omitted.

(1)

1978 c. 29; section 105(7), which was amended by the Health Services Act 1980 (c. 53) (“the 1980 Act”), Schedule 6, paragraph 5 and Schedule 7 and by the Health and Social Services and Social Security Adjudications Act 1983 (c. 41), Schedule 9, paragraph 24, contains provisions relevant to the exercise of the statutory powers under which these Regulations are made; section 108(1) contains definitions of “prescribed” and “regulations”; and paragraph 11 of Schedule 1 was amended by the 1980 Act, Schedule 6, paragraph 7(4) and Schedule 7 and by the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19), Schedule 5, paragraph 7.

(2)

S.I. 1991/809, amended by S.I. 1993/1615 and 1998/1459.