The NHS Blood and Transplant (Gwaed a Thrawsblaniadau'r GIG) (Amendment) Regulations 2006

• Citation: S.I. 2006/640
• Sections: 5

Section 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the NHS Blood and Transplant (Gwaed a Thrawsblaniadau'r GIG) (Amendment) Regulations 2006 and shall come into force on 1 st April 2006.

(2) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations ” means the NHS Blood and Transplant (Gwaed a Thrawsblaniadau'r GIG) Regulations 2005 .

Section 2 Amendment of regulation 1 of the principal Regulations

In regulation 1(2) of the principal Regulations (citation, commencement and interpretation), at the appropriate alphabetical place, insert—

“sentence of imprisonment” does not include a committal—

in default of payment of any sum of money,

for want of sufficient distress to satisfy any sum of money, or

for failure to do or abstain from doing anything required to be done or left undone;

Section 3 Amendment of regulation 2 of the principal Regulations

In regulation 2 of the principal Regulations (appointment and tenure of office of chairman and members), after paragraph (4) insert—

(4A) Where for any period the chief executive is suspended from his duties as a chief executive of the Authority—

(a) he shall also be suspended for that period from performing his functions as a member, and

(b) any person appointed to act in his place as chief executive shall also be appointed to perform his functions as a member of the Authority for that period.

Section 4 Amendment of regulation 3 of the principal Regulations

In regulation 3(1) of the principal Regulations (disqualification for appointment), for paragraph (a) substitute—

(a) he has, within the preceding five years—

(i) been convicted in the United Kingdom of any offence or been convicted elsewhere of any offence which, if committed in any part of the United Kingdom would constitute a criminal offence; and

(ii) been sentenced to a sentence of imprisonment (whether suspended or not); and

(iii) neither the conviction has been quashed nor the sentence reduced to a sentence other than a sentence of imprisonment (whether suspended or not) on appeal.

Section 5 Amendment of regulation 4 of the principal Regulations

In regulation 4(1) of the principal Regulations (cessation of disqualification) omit “(i) or (iii)”.