1999 No. 1132 (S.92)

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, SCOTLAND

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

Made

Laid before Parliament

Coming into force

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 19781, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement and interpretation1

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 19912.

Amendment to the principal Regulations2

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

Sam GalbraithMinister for Health Scottish OfficeSt Andrew’s House,Edinburgh

(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.