EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations specify the total number of members, and the number of each type of member, of Fife and Dumfries and Galloway Health Boards (“the specified Health Boards”), following a Health Board election in the area of those Health Boards.
The areas for which the specified Health Boards are constituted are the areas in which the pilot scheme, for the purposes of section 4 of the Health Boards (Membership and Elections) (Scotland) Act 2009 (“the 2009 Act”), will be conducted. Sections 1 to 3 of the 2009 Act came into force for the areas of the specified Health Boards on 24th June 2009 (S.S.I. 2009/242).
Regulation 3 contains a table setting out the number of appointed members, councillor members and elected members, and the total number of members for the specified Health Boards.
Regulation 4 provides that until the day after the first Health Board election the members of the specified Health Boards will continue to be appointed by Scottish Ministers.
Regulation 5 and the Schedule make amendments to the Health Boards (Membership and Procedure) (Scotland) Regulations 2001 (S.S.I. 2001/302), consequential to Health Board elections in relation to the specified Health Boards.