3.—(1) Regulation 5 of the principal Regulations (exempt appointments) is amended as follows.
(2) In paragraph (1), sub-paragraph (d), delete “an NHS trust,”.
(3) In paragraph (1), sub-paragraph (e)(ii) for “NHS trust” substitute “Authority”.
(4) In paragraph (1), sub-paragraph (g)—
(a)for “Public Health Laboratory Service Board” substitute “special health authority established by article 2 of the Health Protection Agency (Yr Asiantaeth Diogelu Iechyd) (Establishment) Order 2003(1) or the Health Protection Agency established by the Health Protection Agency Act 2004(2)”;
(b)for “ or that Board” substitute “special health authority or Agency”.
(5) After paragraph (1)(g) insert—
“(h)a person who has been accredited as a consultant and has been appointed to a consultant post in the Defence Medical Services, and whose appointment to the staff of an Authority will be to a post in which the duties and location of the post are substantially the same as the duties and location of the post previously held in the Defence Medical Services;”;
“(i)a person whose last employment by an Authority was in post as a consultant, the termination of which employment was by reason of retirement and who is appointed to a consultant post in the same Authority without any significant alteration in the duties of the post.”.
c.17.