The Public Benefit Corporation (Register of Members) Amendment Regulations 2006

Statutory Instruments

2006 No. 361

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Public Benefit Corporation (Register of Members) Amendment Regulations 2006

Made

15th February 2006

Laid before Parliament

22nd February 2006

Coming into force

23rd March 2006

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred upon her by section 195(2) of, and paragraph 22(3) of Schedule 1 to, the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003(1) hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Public Benefit Corporation (Register of Members) Amendment Regulations 2006 and shall come into force on 23 March 2006.

(2) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Public Benefit Corporation (Register of Members) Regulations 2004(2).

Amendment of Regulation 2 of the principal Regulations (certain matters in register are not to be available to the public)

2.  In regulation 2(a) of the principal Regulations, after the words “to that constituency” there shall be inserted the words “where that member has not consented to his details being made so available”.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

Warner

Minister of State,

Department of Health

15th February 2006

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Public Benefit Corporation (Register of Members) Regulations 2004 to provide that the relevant part of the register of members, where it provides for a patients' constituency, is not to be available for inspection by members of the public in circumstances where the constituency member has not consented to his details being made available.

(1)

()2003 c. 43.

(2)

()S.I. 2004/539.