SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 5E+W+S[F1HEALTH AUTHORITIES AND SPECIAL HEALTH AUTHORITIES]

Textual Amendments

F1Sch. 5 heading substituted (28.6.1995 for specified purposes and otherwise 1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 17, ss. 2(1)(3), 8(1), Sch. 1 Pt. I para. 59 (with Sch. 2 para. 6)

[F2Part IE+W+S Membership of Regional [F3Area and District] Health Authorities

Textual Amendments

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1Sch. 5 Pt. I: by s. 1(2) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19, SIF 113:2) it is provided that Part I of Schedule 1 to that Act shall have effect in place of Part I of Schedule 5

Regional Health AuthoritiesE+W+S

1(1)A Regional Health Authority shall consist of a chairman appointed by the Secretary of State, and of such number of other members appointed by him as he thinks fit.E+W+S

(2)Except in prescribed cases, it is the Secretary of State’s duty, before he appoints a member of a Regional Health Authority other than the chairman, to consult with respect to the appointment—

(a)such of the following bodies of which the areas or parts of them are within the region of the Authority, namely, county councils, metropolitan district councils, . . . F4 London borough councils, and the Common Council of the City of London;

(b)the university or universities with which the provision of health services in that region is, or is to be, associated;

(c)such bodies as the Secretary of State may recognise as being, either in that region or generally, representative respectively of medical practitioners [F5including medical practitioners qualified in homoeopathy], dental practitioners, nurses, midwives, registered pharmacists and ophthalmic . . . F6 opticians, or representative of such other professions as appear to him to be concerned;

(d)any federation of workers’ organisations which appears to the Secretary of State to be concerned, and any voluntary organisation within the meaning of section 23 above and any other body which appear to him to be concerned; and

(e)in the case of an appointment of a member falling to be made after the establishment of the Regional Health Authority in question, that Authority.]

Textual Amendments