http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1999/29

F1Part 5AHealth

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Amendments (Textual)

Pt. 5A inserted (E.W.) (21.1.2008) by Greater London Authority Act 2007 (c. 24), ss. 21(1), 59(7); S.I. 2008/113, art. 2(d)

The Health Adviser and the Deputy Health Advisers

309BThe Health Adviser: identity and appointment

1

The person who is the Health Adviser at any time is to be the person who at that time is in the employment of the Civil Service of the State in the post of Regional Director of Public Health for London.

2

If there ceases to be a post in the Civil Service of the State known as Regional Director of Public Health for London, any reference in this section to that post is to be taken as a reference to that post in the Civil Service of the State which corresponds, or most closely corresponds, to that of Regional Director of Public Health for London.

3

If any question arises as to which one of two or more persons is to be the Health Adviser, the Secretary of State may designate one of them to be the Health Adviser.

4

If there ceases to be any post in the Civil Service of the State which corresponds, or reasonably closely corresponds, to that of Regional Director of Public Health for London, subsection (5) below applies.

5

In any such case, the Health Adviser is to be such person as the Secretary of State may appoint from among persons who appear to him to meet the conditions in subsection (6) below.

6

The conditions are that the person—

a

is in the employment of the Civil Service of the State or is employed in the National Health Service, and

b

in either case, holds a senior post in which he has strategic responsibilities for public health throughout Greater London.

7

If at any time a person appointed under subsection (5) above ceases to hold the post mentioned in subsection (6)(b) above, then at that time he also ceases to be the Health Adviser.

8

Nothing in this section implies that a person who ceases to be the Health Adviser at any time may not again be the Health Adviser at any subsequent time.

9

The functions of the Health Adviser at any time are functions of his in the course of his employment at that time in the Civil Service of the State or, as the case may be, in the National Health Service.