The Health Authorities (Membership and Procedure) Amendment (England) Regulations 2002

• Citation: S.I. 2002/556
• Sections: 6

Section 1 Citation, commencement, extent and interpretation

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Health Authorities (Membership and Procedure) Amendment (England) Regulations 2002 and shall come into force on 1st April 2002.

(2) These Regulations extend to England only.

(3) In these Regulations, “the principal Regulations ” means the Health Authorities (Membership and Procedure) Regulations 1996 .

Section 2 Amendment of regulation 1 of the principal Regulations

In regulation 1(2) of the principal Regulations, after the definition of “health service body”, the following definition is inserted—

“institution within the higher education sector” has the same meaning as in the Further and Higher Education Act 1992 ;

Section 3 Amendment of regulation 2 of the principal Regulations

Regulation 2 of the principal Regulations is amended as follows—

(a) for paragraph (2), there is substituted—

(2) One of the non-officer members to be appointed to an Authority shall be a person who holds a post in an institution within the higher education sector which provides education enabling students to fulfil criteria necessary for—

(a) provisional registration in the register of medical practitioners kept under section 2 of the Medical Act 1983 ;

(b) registration in the dentists register kept under section 14 of the Dentists Act 1984 ;

(c) registration in the register of pharmaceutical chemists maintained pursuant to section 2 of the Pharmacy Act 1954 ;

(d) registration in the register maintained by the Nursing and Midwifery Council pursuant to paragraph 10 of Schedule 2 to the Nursing and Midwifery Order 2001 ; or

(e) registration in one of the registers maintained by the Health Professions Council pursuant to paragraph 11 of Schedule 2 to the Health Professions Order 2001 .

(b) in paragraph (4)(a), for “three” there is substituted “two”;

(c) in paragraph (4)(b), for “two” there is substituted “three”; and

(d) in paragraph (5), for “chief executive, director of finance and director of public health”, there is substituted “chief executive and director of finance”.

Section 4 Amendment of regulation 8 of the principal Regulations

In regulation 8(8) of the principal Regulations, for “post in a university with a medical or dental school” there is substituted “post in an institution within the higher education sector as referred to in regulation 2(2)”.

Section 5 Amendment of regulation 10 of the principal Regulations

In regulation 10(4)(a) and (5)(a) of the principal Regulations , for “post in a university”, there is substituted “post in an institution within the higher education sector, or a post in a university which is not such an institution”.

Section 6 Omission of Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations

Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations is omitted.