2009 No. 242 (C. 21)

National Health Service
Representation Of The People

The Health Boards (Membership and Elections) (Scotland) Act 2009 (Commencement No. 1) Order 2009

Made

The Scottish Ministers make the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 4(1) of the Health Boards (Membership and Elections) (Scotland) Act 20091 and all other powers enabling them to do so.

Citation1

This Order may be cited as the Health Boards (Membership and Elections) (Scotland) Act 2009 (Commencement No. 1) Order 2009.

The appointed day for specified Health Board areas2

The day appointed for the coming into force of sections 1 to 3 of the Health Boards (Membership and Elections) (Scotland) Act 2009 for the areas for which—

a

Fife Health Board; and

b

Dumfries and Galloway Health Board,

are constituted2, is 24th June 2009.

NICOLA STURGEONA member of the Scottish ExecutiveSt Andrew’s House,Edinburgh
EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order appoints 24th June 2009 as the day on which sections 1 to 3 of the Health Boards (Membership and Elections) (Scotland) Act 2009 (“the Act”) come into force in respect of Fife and Dumfries and Galloway Health Board areas for the purpose of piloting Health Board elections in those areas.

Section 4(1) of the Act provides that the Scottish Ministers may, by Order, appoint a day on which sections 1 to 3 of the Act are to come into force in respect of the Health Board areas specified in the Order. This Order is defined as the pilot order in the Act. By virtue of section 4(2) of the Act, Scottish Ministers may make one pilot order only. This Order is the pilot order in terms of the Act.