Until the elected members take up office in terms of paragraph 10A(1) of Schedule 1 to the Act following the first Health Board election in the areas of the specified Health Boards all the members of those Health Boards shall continue to be appointed by the Scottish Ministers.

Regulation 5 and the Schedule have effect from the day on which the elected members take up office in terms of paragraph 10A(1) of Schedule 1 to the Act following the first Health Board election in the areas of the specified Health Boards.