In section 60 of the Health Act 2006 (which enables the Privy Council to arrange for its functions relating to the appointment of regulatory bodies to be exercised by the Appointments Commission), after subsection (2) insert—

“(3)

The Commission is to exercise so much of any function of the Privy Council relating to the appointment of—

(a)

the chair of the Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence, or

(b)

members of the Office of the Health Professions Adjudicator,

as may be specified in a direction given by the Privy Council.”