National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006 (c. 42)

SCHEDULES

Section 189

SCHEDULE 13 E+W Further provision about standing advisory committees

1 Regulations may make provision with respect to—

(a) the appointment,

(b) the tenure of office, and

(c) the vacation of office,

of the members of any standing advisory committee.

2 E+W The Welsh Ministers must appoint a secretary to each standing advisory committee.

3 E+W Each standing advisory committee may appoint such sub-committees as it considers appropriate, and as are approved by the Welsh Ministers, to consider and report on questions referred to it by the standing advisory committee.

4 E+W Any such sub-committee may include persons who are not members of the standing advisory committee.

5 E+W Each standing advisory committee must elect one of the members of the committee to be chairman of the committee.

Yn ddilys o 01/04/2010

[F1 5A E+W But regulations under paragraph 1(b) may make provision about the appointment by the Welsh Ministers of an interim chairman of a standing advisory committee in cases where the chairman elected under paragraph 5 is removed or suspended from office.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 13 para. 5A inserted (1.4.2010) by Health Act 2009 (c. 21), ss. 19, 40, Sch. 3 paras. 17(3), 18(1)(b) (with para. 19); S.I. 2010/930, art. 2

6 E+W Each standing advisory committee has power to regulate its own procedure.

7 E+W The proceedings of a standing advisory committee are not invalidated by any vacancy in the membership of the committee, or by any defect in a member's appointment or qualification.

8 E+W The Welsh Ministers may make such payments in respect of expenses incurred by a standing advisory committee as they may determine.

9 E+W The Welsh Ministers may pay to the members of a standing advisory committee, or a sub-committee of a standing advisory committee, such travelling and other allowances, including compensation for loss of remunerative time, as they may determine.

10 E+W Payments under this Schedule are subject to such conditions as to records, certificates, or otherwise as the Welsh Ministers may determine.