Explanatory Note
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order revokes and replaces the Welsh Health PromotionAuthority (Establishment and Constitution) Order 1987 (“the 1987 Order”). The Welsh Health Promotion Authority, a special health authorityestablished under the National Health Service Act 1977 to exercisefunctions in relation to health promotion in Wales, is continued inbeing, but with a new name and with a different constitution.
This Order provides in particular for the continuation of theAuthority (article 2), for the change of its name to the HealthPromotion Authority for Wales (article 3), for the functions of theAuthority (article 4) and for its new constitution of a chairman andnine other members (article 5). Article 6 of this Order specifies theAuthority as a special health authority the members of which may beremunerated as well as the chairman. Article 7 revokes the 1987 Order.