The Authorities for London Post-Graduate Teaching Hospitals (Constitution) Order 1990

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Authorities for London Post-Graduate Teaching Hospitals (Constitution) Order 1990 and shall come into force on 17th September 1990.

Interpretation

2.  In this Order unless the context otherwise requires—

“Authority” means a special health authority continued in being under article 3 of this Order;

“the relevant institute or medical school” in relation to an Authority means the institute or medical school specified in column (1) of Schedule 1 to this Order in relation to that Authority as specified in column (2) of that Schedule.

Continuation of Authorities

3.  The special health authorities specified in column (1) of Schedule 2 to this Order shall continue to be established and to be known by the names specified in that column.

Functions of Authorities

4.  Each Authority shall perform on behalf of the Secretary of State—

(a) such functions relating to the management of any hospital specified in column (2) of Schedule 2 to this Order in relation to its name, or relating to services provided in connection with any such hospital, as he may direct; and

(b) such other functions as he may direct.

Constitution of Authorities

5.—(1) Each Authority shall have a chairman and officer and non-officer members, that is to say members who, subject to article 8 of this Order, respectively are and are not officers of the Authority.

(2) Each Authority except the Eastman Dental Hospital shall have a chairman, six non-officer members and not more than six officer members.

(3) The Eastman Dental Hospital shall have a chairman, five non-officer members and not more than five officer members.

The non-officer members

6.  The non-officer members of an Authority shall include—

(a) a person who holds a post in the relevant institute or medical school; and

(b) a person who, in the opinion of the Secretary of State, is either a medical or dental practitioner of consultant status in an activity undertaken in a hospital managed by the Authority, or can suitably represent activities of national significance undertaken at a hospital managed by the Authority but who in either case is not employed by the Authority, the relevant institute or medical school or by the University of London.

The officer members

7.  The officer members of an Authority shall include—

(a) the chief officer of the Authority;

(b) the chief finance officer of the Authority;

(c) a medical practitioner or dental practitioner of consultant status;

(d) except in the case of the Eastman Dental Hospital, the chief nursing officer of the Authority.

Persons to be regarded as non-officers

8.  Where a person—

(a) holds a post in the relevant institute or medical school, and

(b) would also, apart from this article, be regarded as an officer of an Authority,

his employment as an officer of the Authority shall not prevent him being appointed as a non-officer member of that Authority.

Remuneration of non-officer members

9.  The Authorities are specified for the purposes of paragraph 9(7)(b) of Schedule 5 to the National Health Service Act 1977.

Admission to meetings

10.  The Public Bodies (Admission to Meetings) Act 1960(1) shall apply to each Authority.

Joint consultative committees

11.  The Secretary of State may appoint any person who has been nominated by an Authority to a joint consultative committee, or a sub-committee, within the meaning of section 22 of the National Health Service Act 1977.

Revocation of Orders

12.  The Orders specified in Schedule 3 to this Order are hereby revoked.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health

Virginia Bottomley

Minister of State for Health

24th July 1990