Part I The National Health Service: England and Wales

Local management

1 Regional and District Health Authorities.

(1)

In the M1National Health Service Act 1977 (in this Part of this Act referred to as “the principal Act”), in section 8 (Regional and District Health Authorities etc.)—

(a)

in subsection (1) for the words “Schedule 5 to this Act” there shall be substituted “Schedule 1 to the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990”;

(b)

any reference to an area or an Area Health Authority shall be omitted; and

(c)

subsection (5) (consultation before making orders under subsection (2)) shall be omitted.

(2)

Part I of Schedule 1 to this Act shall have effect in place of Part I of Schedule 5 to the principal Act (membership of health authorities etc.).

(3)

Part III of Schedule 5 to the principal Act (supplementary provisions as to authorities) shall be amended in accordance with Part III of Schedule 1 to this Act.

(4)

Subject to subsection (5) below, at the end of the day appointed for the coming into force of this subsection,—

(a)

any person who became a member of a Regional or District Health Authority under Part I of Schedule 5 to the principal Act shall cease to be such a member; and

(b)

any person who, by virtue of an order under section 11 of the principal Act, became a member of a special health authority which is a relevant authority for the purposes of paragraph 9(1) of Schedule 5 to that Act (as amended by Part III of Schedule 1 to this Act) shall cease to be such a member.

(5)

Subsection (4) above does not apply to a person holding office as chairman of a Regional, District or Special Health Authority.