The NHS Commissioning Board Authority (Abolition and Transfer of Staff, Property and Liabilities) and the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2012

The Health Research Authority Regulations 2011

15.—(1) The Health Research Authority Regulations 2011(1) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 1(2) (interpretation)—

(a) the definition of “health service body”—

(i) in paragraph (a), after “Special Health Authority,”, insert “a clinical commissioning group,”;

(ii) after paragraph (g) insert—

“(ga) the National Health Service Commissioning Board;”; and

(b) in the definition of “member”, for “regulation 2A(1)(d), (2) and (3)” substitute “regulation 2A(1)(d), (da), (2) and (3)”.

(3) In regulation 2A (disqualification for appointment)—

(a) in paragraph (1)(d), after “health service body” (the first time it appears), insert “other than a clinical commissioning group”;

(b) after paragraph (1)(d), insert—

“(da) that person is a person who has been removed from office as the chair or a member of the governing body of a clinical commissioning group;”;

(c) in paragraph (2)(a), after “which is not”, insert “a clinical commissioning group,”; and

(d) after paragraph (2)(a) insert—

“(ab) in the case of a clinical commissioning group, the chair or a member of the governing body of the group;”.

(1)

S.I. 2011/2341, as amended by S.I. 2012/1108.