SCHEDULE 3Amendments consequential on the establishment of the National Health Service Commissioning Board and clinical commissioning groups

The Health Research Authority Regulations 201115

1

The Health Research Authority Regulations 201129 are amended as follows.

2

In regulation 1(2) (interpretation)—

a

the definition of “health service body”—

i

in paragraph (a), after “Special Health Authority,”, insert “a clinical commissioning group,”;

ii

after paragraph (g) insert—

ga

the National Health Service Commissioning Board;

b

in the definition of “member”, for “regulation 2A(1)(d), (2) and (3)” substitute “regulation 2A(1)(d), (da), (2) and (3)”.

3

In regulation 2A (disqualification for appointment)—

a

in paragraph (1)(d), after “health service body” (the first time it appears), insert “other than a clinical commissioning group”;

b

after paragraph (1)(d), insert—

da

that person is a person who has been removed from office as the chair or a member of the governing body of a clinical commissioning group;

c

in paragraph (2)(a), after “which is not”, insert “a clinical commissioning group,”; and

d

after paragraph (2)(a) insert—

ab

in the case of a clinical commissioning group, the chair or a member of the governing body of the group;