Amendment of regulation 5 of the principal Regulations

5.  In regulation 5 (Appointments to which the Regulations do not apply)—

(a)for “Board” wherever it occurs substitute “Authority”;

(b)for paragraph (1)(a) substitute—

(a)appointed to a clinical academic post;;

(c)in paragraph (1)(c) for “Northern Ireland Council for Postgraduate Medical and Dental Education” substitute “Northern Ireland Medical and Dental Training Agency(1)”;

(d)for paragraph (1)(d) substitute—

(d)transferred from employment as a consultant—

(i)by an Authority to another consultant post with that Authority; or

(ii)by an Authority to a consultant post with another Authority;

where the employment of the officer would otherwise be terminated by reason of redundancy;

(e)after paragraph (1)(e) insert—

(f)a person who has been accredited as a consultant and has been appointed to a consultant post in the Defence Medical Services, and whose appointment to the staff of an Authority will be to a post in which the duties and location of the post are substantially the same as the duties and location of the post previously held in the Defence Medical Services;

(g)a person whose last employment by an Authority was in post as a consultant, the termination of which employment was by reason of retirement and who is appointed to a consultant post in the same Authority without any significant alteration in the duties of the post..