The Family Health Services Authorities (Membership and Procedure) Regulations 1990

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Family Health Services Authorities (Membership and Procedure) Regulations 1990 and shall come into force on 17th September 1990.

(2) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—

“the 1977 Act” means the National Health Service Act 1977;

“the 1990 Act” means the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990;

“appointing authority” means —

(a)

in the case of an Authority in England —

(i)

in relation to its Chairman, the Secretary of State, and

(ii)

in relation to members appointed under paragraph 4 (1) (b) of Schedule 1 to the 1990 Act, the relevant Regional Health Authority,

(b)

in the case of an Authority in Wales, the Secretary of State;

“Authority” means a Family Health Services Authority established by the Secretary of State under section 10(1) of the 1977 Act(1)

“Dental Practice Board” means the Board referred to in section 37 (1) of the 1977 Act(2);

“health service body” means —

(a)

a health authority, a Family Health Services Authority or a National Health Service trust;

(b)

a Health Board, a Special Health Board, the Common Services Agency for the Scottish Health Service and a National Health Service Trust respectively constituted under sections 2, 10, and 12A of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978((3);

(c)

a State Hospital Management Committee constituted under section 91 of the Mental Health (Scotland) Act 1984(4)

(d)

the Dental Practice Board or Scottish Dental Practice Board;

(e)

the Public Health Laboratory Service Board; and

(f)

the National Radiological Protection Board established by section 1 of the Radiological Protection Act 1970(5)

“medical audit committee” means a committee whose functions are concerned with the analysis of the quality of medical care;

“member” means a member of an Authority including its Chairman;

“Part II services” means general medical services, general dental services, general ophthalmic services or pharmaceutical services under the 1977 Act;

“service committee” means a medical, pharmaceutical, dental or ophthalmic service committee, a joint services committee or a denture conciliation committee established under the National Health Service (Service Committees and Tribunal) Regulations 1974(6);

“trade union” has the meaning assigned to it in section 28 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations Act 1974(7).

(3) In these Regulations, a reference to a numbered regulation is to the regulation bearing that number in these Regulations and a reference in a regulation to a numbered paragraph is to the paragraph bearing that number in that regulation.

(1)

Section 10 was substituted by section 5(1) of the Health and Social Security Act 1984 (c. 48) and amended by section 2(3) of the 1990 Act.

(2)

See also the Health and Medicines Act 1988 (c. 49), section 31.

(3)

1978 c. 29; section 2 was amended by the Health and Social Services and Social Security Adjudications Act 1983 (c. 41); Schedule 7, paragraph 1 and by the 1990 Act, section 28; section 10 was amended by the Health Services Act 1980 (c. 53), Schedule 6, paragraph 2; section 31 was inserted by the 1990 Act, section 30.

(4)

1984 c. 36.

(5)

1970 c. 46.

(6)

S.I. 1974/455; to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.

(7)

1974 c. 52.