The Primary Care Trusts (Membership, Procedure and Administration Arrangements) Amendment (No. 2) (England) Regulations 2002

Amendment of regulation 2 of the principal Regulations

2.—(1) Regulation 2 of the principal Regulations (membership of Primary Care Trusts) shall be amended as follows.

(2) In paragraph (1)—

(a) At the beginning there shall be inserted “Subject to paragraphs (12) to (14),”;

(b) for “8” there shall be substituted “10”.

(3) In paragraph (2), after “7” there shall be inserted “, or, where paragraph (12) applies, 8”.

(4) In paragraph (4)(a) for “and Director of Finance” there shall be substituted “, Director of Finance and Director of Public Health”.

(5) In paragraph (7) for “and the Director of Finance” there shall be substituted “, the Director of Finance and the Director of Public Health”.

(6) After paragraph (11) the following paragraphs shall be added:

“(12) Subject to paragraph (14), a Primary Care Trust may, for the relevant period, have 16 members if—

(a) on 31st March 2002 it had 7 officer members who did not include the Director of Public Health; and

(b) as a result of the appointment of the Director of Public Health as an officer member under paragraph (4)(a)—

(i) the number of officer members increased to 8; and

(ii) the number of non-officer members also increased to 8 in accordance with paragraph (2).

(13) For the purposes of paragraph (12), “the relevant period” means the period from 1st April 2002 until the earlier of—

(a) such time as an officer member appointed under paragraph (4)(c) or (7) ceases to be a member; or

(b) 31st March 2004.

(14) If, before 31st March 2004, an officer member appointed under paragraph (4)(c) or (7) ceases to be a member, the Primary Care Trust may have no more than 7 officer members and the number of non-officer members may only exceed that number until the earlier of—

(a) such time as a non-officer member, other than one mentioned in paragraph (3A), ceases to be a member; or

(b) 31st March 2004.”.