2014 No. 1905
National Health Service, England

The National Health Service Trusts (Trust Funds: Appointment of Trustees) (Amendment) Order 2014

Made
Coming into force
The Secretary of State for Health makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 272(7) and (8) and 273(1) of, and paragraph 10 of Schedule 4 to, the National Health Service Act 20061.

Citation, commencement and interpretation1.

(1)

This Order may be cited as the National Health Service Trusts (Trust Funds: Appointment of Trustees) (Amendment) Order 2014 and comes into force on 31st July 2014.

(2)

In this Order, “the Appointment Order” means the National Health Service Trusts (Trust Funds: Appointment of Trustees) Order 20002.

Amendment of the Appointment Order2.

The Appointment Order is amended as follows—

(a)

in article 1(2) (citation, commencement and interpretation), omit the definitions “company”, “executive director” and “non-executive director”;

(b)

in article 3 (termination and suspension of appointment), for paragraph (1), substitute—

“(1)

The Secretary of State may terminate a trustee’s tenure of office where the Secretary of State is of the opinion that it is not in the interests of the Trust or of the health service or of the administration of any trust funds that the trustee should continue to hold office.”;

(c)

omit article 4 (appointment of company subject to conditions); and

(d)

in the Schedule (National Health Service trusts for which trustees are appointed), omit the entry “The Barts Health National Health Service Trust”.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health.

Earl Howe
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State
Department of Health
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the National Health Service Trusts (Trust Funds: Appointment of Trustees) Order 2000 (S.I. 2000/212) (“the Appointment Order”), which provides for the appointment of trustees for National Health Service trusts specified in the Schedule.

The Order–

  • amends the Appointment Order by removing references to appointing a company as a trustee, which the Secretary of State could only do in relation to the Barts Health National Health Service Trust, and

  • removes the name of the Barts Health National Health Service Trust from the list of trusts for which the Secretary of State is to appoint trustees.