(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.