The Public Appointments and Public Bodies etc. (Scotland) Act 2003 (Treatment of Office or Body as Specified Authority) Order 2010

Made: 17th March 2010

Coming into force in accordance with article 1

In accordance with section 18(4) of that Act, a draft of this order has been laid before and approved by resolution of the Scottish Parliament.

Citation and Commencement

1

This Order may be cited as the Public Appointments and Public Bodies etc. (Scotland) Act 2003 (Treatment of Office or Body as Specified Authority) Order 2010 and comes into force on the day after the day on which it was made.

Treatment as Specified Authority

2

The following bodies shall be treated, for the purposes of or in connection with any appointment to those bodies, as if each of them was a specified authority within the meaning of section 2(1) of the Public Appointments and Public Bodies etc. (Scotland) Act 2003 (the Commissioner’s functions):—

• (a) Healthcare Improvement Scotland; and

• (b) Social Care and Social Work Improvement Scotland.

Signed

SHONA ROBISON — Authorised to sign on behalf of the Scottish Ministers — 17th March 2010

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order provides that Healthcare Improvement Scotland and Social Care and Social Work Improvement Scotland, shall for the purposes of appointments to those bodies, be treated as if they were specified authorities listed in schedule 2 to the Public Appointments and Public Bodies etc. (Scotland) Act 2003.

Footnotes

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