2002 No. 38
NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND

The Primary Care Trusts (Membership, Procedure and Administration Arrangements) Amendment (No. 3) (England) Regulations 2002

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

Citation, commencement and extent1.

(1)

These Regulations may be cited as the Primary Care Trusts (Membership, Procedure and Administration Arrangements) Amendment (No. 2) (England) Regulations 2002 and shall come into force on 4th February 2002.

(2)

These Regulations extend to England only.

Revocation of Regulations2.

The Primary Care Trusts (Membership, Procedure and Administration Arrangements) Amendment (England) Regulations 20012 are hereby revoked.

Amendment of Regulations3.

The entries in Schedule 1 to the Primary Care Trusts (Membership, Procedure and Administration Arrangements) Regulations 20003 (Special Health Authorities of which the chairman and members are not disqualified under regulation 5(1)(e)) are deleted and the following entries substituted:
  • “Health Development Agency4;
  • National Blood Authority5;
  • National Clinical Assessment Authority6;
  • National Health Service Information Authority7;
  • National Institute for Clinical Excellence8;
  • National Patient Safety Agency9;
  • National Treatment Agency10;
  • Retained Organs Commission11;
  • United Kingdom Transplant12

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health

Hunt
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Department of Health
(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend Schedule 1 to the Primary Care Trusts (Membership, Procedure and Administration Arrangements) Regulations 2000, which make provision relating to the membership and procedure of Primary Care Trusts, so as to provide that the chairman and members of the National Blood Authority, the National Patient Safety Agency, the National Treatment Agency and the Retained Organs Commission are not disqualified for appointment as a chairman or a member of a Primary Care Trust in England. As Schedule 1 to the Regulations (in which the list of bodies exempted from the disqualification provisions appears) was previously amended by Regulations which referred in error to the National Blood Authority as being listed in that Schedule, those Regulations are revoked (regulation 2) and in the interests of clarity the inclusion of the special health authorities mentioned above has been effected by substituting a complete list of the entries in that Schedule.