The National Health Service Trusts (Membership and Procedure) Amendment Regulations 1998

• Citation: S.I. 1998/1975
• Sections: 3

Section 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service Trusts (Membership and Procedure) Amendment Regulations 1998 and shall come into force on 10th September 1998.

(2) In these Regulations, “ the Regulations ” means The National Health Service Trusts (Membership and Procedure) Regulations 1990 .

Section 2 Maximum number of directors

For regulation 2 of the Regulations (maximum number of directors), there shall be substituted the following regulation—

Maximum number of directors

(2)

(1) The maximum number of directors of an NHS trust shall be twelve, excluding the Chairman.

(2) An NHS trust shall have no more than seven non-executive directors (excluding the Chairman), and no more than five executive directors.

Section 3 Disqualification for appointment of chairman and non-executive directors

At the end of regulation 11 of the Regulations, there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

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