The Public Health Wales National Health Service Trust (Membership and Procedure) (Amendment) Regulations 2011

Made: 29 March 2011

Laid before the National Assembly for Wales: 30 March 2011

Coming into force: 23 June 2011

The Welsh Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 18(4), 203(9) and (10) of and paragraph 4 of Schedule 3 to the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006[^f00001].

Title and commencement

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• (1) The title of these Regulations is the Public Health Wales National Health Service Trust (Membership and Procedure) (Amendment) Regulations 2011.

• (2) These Regulations come into force on 23 June 2011.

Amendment of the Public Health Wales National Health Service Trust (Membership and Procedure) Regulations 2009

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• (1) The Public Health Wales National Health Service Trust (Membership and Procedure) Regulations 2009[^f00002] are amended as follows.

• (2) In regulation 1(2) (interpretation), omit the definition of “trade union”.

• (3) In regulation 5(1) (non-executive directors), omit sub-paragraph (d).

• (4) In regulation 10 (termination of tenure of office of chair and non-executive directors), for regulation 10(8), substitute—

Where the non-executive director referred to in sub-paragraph (c) of regulation 5(1) ceases to be a member or employee of a voluntary sector organisation in Wales, the Welsh Ministers will terminate his or her appointment as non-executive director.

• (5) In paragraph 2 of Schedule 1 (procedures for appointment of the chair and non-executive directors), for “members” substitute “directors”.

• (6) In paragraph 2(2) of Schedule 2 (rules as to meetings and proceedings of the Trust), for “members” substitute “directors”.

Signed

Edwina Hart — The Minister for Health and Social Services, one of the Welsh Ministers — 29 March 2011

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Public Health Wales National Health Service Trust (Membership and Procedure) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/1385 (W.141) by removing the requirement for the non-executive directors to include a person who is an officer of a trade union or other employee representative body representing staff of the Public Health Wales National Health Service Trust.

There are also minor amendments to regulation 1(2) (interpretation), paragraph 2 of Schedule 1,(procedures for appointment of the chair and non-executive directors), and paragraph 2(2) of Schedule 2 (rules as to meetings and proceedings of the Trust).

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 2006 c. 42.

[^f00002]: S.I. No. 2009/1385 (W.141).