SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 2Strategic Health Authorities

Membership of Strategic Health Authorities

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A Strategic Health Authority consists of—

a

a chairman appointed by the Secretary of State,

b

not more than a prescribed number of persons (not being officers of the Strategic Health Authority) appointed by the Secretary of State, and

c

a prescribed number of officers of the Strategic Health Authority.

4

Regulations may provide that all or any of the persons appointed as members of a Strategic Health Authority under paragraph 3(b)—

a

must hold posts of a prescribed description, or

b

must fulfil any other prescribed conditions.

5

Regulations must provide that each of the persons who is a member of a Strategic Health Authority under paragraph 3(c) must either—

a

hold an office of the Strategic Health Authority of a prescribed description, or

b

be appointed by the chairman of the Strategic Health Authority and the persons appointed as members of the Strategic Health Authority under paragraph 3(c).

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Regulations may provide for a person of a prescribed description who is not an officer of a Strategic Health Authority to be treated for the purposes of this Schedule, and any other prescribed provision relating to members of (or of committees or sub-committees of) Strategic Health Authorities, as if he were such an officer.