Health Services and Public Health Act 1968

Section 16.

SCHEDULE 1 Executive Councils

Constitution of Executive Councils

1 An Executive Council shall consist of thirty members of whom—

(a) eight members shall be appointed by the local health authority for the area of the Executive Council;

(b) seven members shall be appointed by the Minister;

(c) eight members (of whom one, but no more, shall be a medical practitioner having the qualifications prescribed for the purposes of section 41 of the 1946 Act) shall be appointed by the Local Medical Committee;

(d) three members shall be appointed by the Local Dental Committee;

(e) two members shall be appointed by the Local Pharmaceutical Committee;

(f) one member (who shall be an ophthalmic optician) shall be appointed by the members of the Local Optical Committee who are such opticians ;

(g) one member (who shall be a dispensing optician) shall be appointed by the members of that Committee who are such opticians.

2 The Members of an Executive Council shall from time to time, in accordance with such procedure as may be prescribed, appoint one of their members to be chairman of the Council.

Supplementary Provisions

3 Every Executive Council shall be a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal.

4 An Executive Council shall not acquire land except with the consent of the Minister.

5 The term of office of the chairman of an Executive Council shall be such as the Council, when making the appointment, determine, but if he ceases to be a member of the Council he shall also cease to be chairman.

6 The Minister may make regulations—

(a) with respect to the appointment, tenure of office and vacation of office of the members of an Executive Council;

(b) with respect to the appointment of committees consisting wholly or partly of members of such a Council and the delegation of functions to such committees ;

(c) with respect to the appointment of officers of such a Council;

(d) for payment by such a Council of sums, not exceeding such sums as may be prescribed, as subscriptions to the funds of any association of such Councils whose objects are approved by the Minister;

(e) with respect to the procedure of such a Council or any such committee as aforesaid.

7 If a Local Medical Committee, a Local Dental Committee, a Local Pharmaceutical Committee, the members of a Local Optical Committee who are ophthalmic opticians or the members of such a committee who are dispensing opticians fail within such period as the Minister may determine to appoint any member of an Executive Council whom they are required to appoint, the appointment shall be made by the Minister.

8 The proceedings of an Executive Council or committee thereof shall not be invalidated by a vacancy in the membership of the Council or committee or by a defect in the appointment or qualification of a member thereof.