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The Controlled Drugs (Supervision of Management and Use) (Wales) Regulations 2008
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5.—(1) A Welsh independent hospital may only nominate or appoint a person as its accountable officer if—
(a)the person is—
(i)its registered manager, or
(ii)one of its officers or employees who is answerable to its registered manager,
and if the person is its registered manager, he or she must be answerable to the chief executive, chairman or managing director of the hospital; and
(b)the person does not routinely supply, administer or dispose of controlled drugs as part of his or her duties.
(2) Two or more Welsh independent hospitals may jointly nominate or appoint one registered manager to be the accountable officer for both or all of the hospitals if the registered manager—
(a)is registered as manager in relation to both or all of the hospitals; and
(b)does not routinely supply, administer or dispose of controlled drugs as part of his or her duties.
(3) Subject to paragraph (4), a designated body specified in regulation 3(a), (b) or (c) may only nominate or appoint a person as its accountable officer if—
(a)the person is an officer or employee of the designated body, and—
(i)a member of the board of directors, or the management or executive committee of the designated body,
(ii)a member of the body (howsoever it may be called) that has responsibility for the management of the designated body, or
(iii)is answerable to a person referred to in paragraph (i) or (ii); and
(b)the person does not routinely supply, administer or dispose of controlled drugs as part of his or her duties.
(4) Two or more designated bodies specified in regulation 3(a), (b) or (c) but which are of the same type may jointly nominate or appoint one person to be the accountable officer for both or all of the bodies, if—
(a)the person satisfies paragraph (3)(a) in relation to one of the designated bodies;
(b)each designated body is satisfied that the person can properly discharge his or her responsibilities in relation to it; and
(c)the person does not routinely supply, administer or dispose of controlled drugs as part of his or her duties.
(5) In this regulation “registered manager” (“rheolwr cofrestredig”), in relation to a Welsh independent hospital, means the person who is registered under Part II of the 2000 Act as the manager of the hospital.
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I1Reg. 5 in force at 9.1.2009, see reg. 1(2)
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