National Health Service Act 2006

[F1 14Z30 Register of interests and management of conflicts of interests E+W

(1) Each integrated care board must maintain one or more registers of the interests of—

(a) members of the board,

(b) members of its committees or sub-committees, and

(c) its employees.

(2) Each integrated care board must publish the registers maintained under subsection (1) or make arrangements to ensure that members of the public have access to the registers on request.

(3) Each integrated care board must make arrangements to ensure—

(a) that a person mentioned in subsection (1) declares any conflict or potential conflict of interest that the person has in relation to a decision to be made in the exercise of the commissioning functions of the integrated care board,

(b) that any such declaration is made as soon as practicable after the person becomes aware of the conflict or potential conflict and, in any event, within 28 days of the person becoming aware, and

(c) that any such declaration is included in the registers maintained under subsection (1).

(4) Each integrated care board must make arrangements for managing conflicts and potential conflicts of interest in such a way as to ensure that they do not, and do not appear to, affect the integrity of the board’s decision-making processes.

(5) For the purposes of this section, the commissioning functions of an integrated care board are the functions of the board in arranging for the provision of services as part of the health service.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Pt. 2 Ch. A3 inserted (9.5.2022 but only for the insertion of ss. 14Z25 (in part), 14Z26, 14Z28) by Health and Care Act 2022 (c. 31), ss. 19(2), 186(6); S.I. 2022/515, reg. 2(c)