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The Primary Care Trusts (Membership, Procedure and Administration Arrangements) Regulations 2000

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Termination of tenure of office and suspension of officer members

3.—(1) A person who is an officer member under regulation 2(4)(a) or (b) or (7) shall cease to hold office as a member if he ceases to hold the post or office in the trust by virtue of which he became an officer member.

(2) A person who is an officer member under regulation 2(4)(b) or (c) shall cease to hold office as a member if, being a member of the Executive Committee, he ceases to be such a member.

(3) If the chairman and non-officer members are of the opinion that it is not in the interests of the trust that a person who is an officer member under regulation 2(4)(c) should continue to hold office as such a member, they may with the consent of the Secretary of State forthwith terminate his tenure of office.

(4) If the Executive Committee of a Primary Care Trust notifies the chairman of the trust that they are of the opinion that a person who is an officer member under regulation 2(4)(c) should not continue to hold office as such a member, the chairman and non-officer members of the trust may terminate his tenure of office if they are of the opinion that it is not in the interests of the trust for him to continue to hold office.

(5) Where under paragraph (4) the chairman and non-officer members terminate the tenure of office of an officer member or determine that such a member shall continue to hold office, they shall forthwith notify the Secretary of State in writing, stating the reasons for their decision.

(6) If a person who is an officer member under regulation 2(4)(c) has failed to attend a meeting of the trust for a period of three months, the chairman and non-officer members shall forthwith terminate the tenure of office of that officer member unless they are satisfied that–

(a)the absence was due to a reasonable cause; and

(b)the member will be able to attend meetings of that trust within such period as the chairman and non-officer members consider reasonable.

(7) If the chairman and non-officer members are of the opinion that it is not in the interests of the trust that a person who is an officer member under regulation 2(7) should continue to hold office as such a member, they may forthwith terminate his tenure of office.

(8) If an officer member of a Primary Care Trust is suspended from his post in the trust or from his membership of the Executive Committee he shall be suspended from performing his functions as a member for the period of his suspension.

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