The National Health Service Trusts (Membership and Procedure) (Scotland) Regulations 1991

Meetings and proceedings

13.—(1) The meetings and proceedings of the board of directors of an NHS trust shall be conducted in accordance with—

(a) the provisions of regulation 14;

(b) the rules set out in the Schedule; and

(c) Standing Orders made under paragraph (2).

(2) The board of directors of an NHS trust shall make and may vary or revoke Standing Orders for the regulation of its proceedings and business including the authorisation of persons to sign or subscribe documents on behalf of the trust and provision may be made in such Standing Orders for their suspension and those Standing Orders will be subject to the rules set out in the Schedule.

(3) The board of directors of an NHS trust may make, vary and revoke Standing Orders relating to the quorum, proceedings and place of meetings of a committee or sub-committee.

(4) Standing Orders made under this regulation may contain provision for the exclusion, subject to such exceptions and qualifications as may be so provided, of a director from a meeting of the board of directors and any committee or sub-committee of the trust while any contract, proposed contract, or other matter in which he or an associate of his has an interest is under consideration.

(5) The proceedings of the board of directors of an NHS trust or of any committee or sub-committee shall not be invalidated by any vacancy in its membership or by any defect in the appointment of any director or member of such committee or sub-committee.