SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 1 Health Boards

Part I

Constitution

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1

A Health Board is to consist of the following types of members—

a

a chairman, and other members, appointed by the Scottish Ministers (“appointed members”),

b

councillors appointed by the Scottish Ministers following nomination by local authorities in the area of the Health Board (“councillor members”), and

c

individuals elected as members of the Health Board at an election held under Schedule 1A (“elected members”).

2

Regulations must, in relation to each Health Board, specify—

a

the total number of members of the Board, and

b

the number of each type of member.

3

But—

a

the total number of councillor members and elected members of a Board must amount to more than half the total number of members, and

b

a Board must contain at least one councillor member for each local authority whose area is wholly or partly within the area of the Board.

4

The conditions imposed by sub-paragraph (3) do not apply during any period when an elected member or, as the case may be, councillor member vacates office and the vacancy has not been filled.