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

Qualification for appointment as executive director

3.—(1) The executive directors of an NHS trust shall include—

(a) the chief officer;

(b) the chief finance officer;

(c) except in the case of an NHS trust mentioned in paragraph (2)

(i) a medical practitioner;

(ii) a dental practitioner; and

(iii) a registered nurse or registered midwife as defined in section 10(7) of the Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Act 1979(1).

(2) Paragraph 1(c) shall not apply in the case of an NHS trust—

(a) which does not provide services directly to patients; or

(b) whose principal function is to provide ambulance or patient transport services.

(3) Except in the case of a person to be appointed as a non-executive director of an NHS trust for the purposes of paragraph 3(1)(d) of Schedule 7A to the Act, a person who is not an employee of the trust but who—

(a) holds a post in a university with a medical or dental school, and also works for the trust; or

(b) is seconded from his employers to work for the trust,

is nevertheless to be regarded on appointment as a director of an NHS trust as an executive rather than as a non-executive director of the trust.

(1)

1979 c. 36.