The National Health Service Trusts(Membership and Procedure) Amendment Regulations 1990

Made: 31st October 1990

Laid before Parliament: 1st November 1990

Coming into force: 22nd November 1990

The Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of powers conferred by section 126(4) and 128(1) of the National Health Service Act 1977[^f00001] and section 5(7)(a) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990[^f00002] and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1

These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service Trusts (Membership and Procedure) Amendment Regulations 1990 and shall come into force on 22nd November 1990.

Amendment of Regulations

2

In regulation 11(4) of the National Health Service Trusts (Membership and Procedure) Regulations 1990[^f00003] for the words “with the trust” there shall be substituted the words “with a health service body”.

Signed

K. Clarke — Secretary of State for Health — 31st October 1990

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the National Health Service Trusts (Membership and Procedure) Regulations 1990 (“the principal Regulations”) which provide, amongst other things, for the membership of NHS trusts constituted under the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990.

That Act provides that, where a trust is to be regarded as having a significant teaching commitment, one of its non-executive directors (“the university director”) should be drawn from a university with a medical or dental school. Under the principal Regulations employment with a health service body disqualifies a person from appointment as a non-executive director, except that a person is not disqualified from being the university director because of his employment with the NHS trust. These Regulations extend the scope of that exception so that no employment with any health service body will disqualify a person from being the university director.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1977 c. 49; section 126(4) was amended by section 65(2) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19) (“the 1990 Act”); section 128(1) was amended by the 1990 Act, section 26(2) and is cited for the definition of “regulations”.

[^f00002]: 1990 c. 19.

[^f00003]: S.I. 1990/2024.