2000 No. 2435
NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Ashworth, Broadmoor and Rampton Hospital Authorities (Functions and Membership) Amendment Regulations 2000

Made
Laid before Parliament
Coming into force
The Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 126(4) of, and paragraph 12 of Schedule 5 to, the National Health Service Act 19771, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement1.

These Regulations may be cited as the Ashworth, Broadmoor and Rampton Hospital Authorities (Functions and Membership) Amendment Regulations 2000 and shall come into force on 1st October 2000.

Amendment of Regulations2.

In the Ashworth, Broadmoor and Rampton Hospital Authorities (Functions and Membership) Regulations 19962, in regulation 8 (disqualification for appointment), after paragraph (3) add the following paragraph—

“(4)

A person shall not be disqualified by paragraph (1)(f) from being a non-officer member by virtue of being the chairman or a non-executive director of an NHS trust during the period between the date on which the trust is established and its operational date.”

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

Yvette Cooper
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Public Health,
Department of Health
(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Ashworth, Broadmoor and Rampton Hospital Authorities (Functions and Membership) Regulations 1996 to provide that during the period between the establishment date of an NHS trust and its operational date, the chairman or a non-executive director of the trust may hold office as the chairman or a non-officer member of the Ashworth Hospital Authority, the Broadmoor Hospital Authority or the Rampton Hospital Authority.