The General Medical Services Transitional and Consequential Provisions (No. 2) (Northern Ireland) Order 2004

5.  The Health and Social Services Trusts (Membership and Procedure) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1994(1) shall be amended as provided in this paragraph.

(1) In regulation 1 (citation, commencement and interpretation), omit the definition of “general medical practitioner”.

(2) In regulation 11 (disqualification for appointment of chairman and non-executive directors), in paragraph (1) –

(a) for sub-paragraph (f), for “he is a general medical practitioner” substitute –

“(f) he –

(i) performs or provides primary medical services under Part VI of the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972,

(ii) is a partner in a partnership that, or is the legal and beneficial owner of shares in a company that, provides primary medical services under Part VI of that Order, or

(iii) is an employee of any of those, or

(iv) is a general dental practitioner or an employee of one; or;”

(b) in sub-paragraph (h), insert at the end “or a list prepared pursuant to Article 57G(2) of that Order”.

(1)

S.R. 1994 No. 63

(2)

Article 57G was inserted into the Order by Article 8 of the 2004 Order