Non-officer members – eligibility5.

(1)

A person is ineligible to be a chair or non-officer member if that person is, or has been within the preceding year, in the paid employment of—

(a)

a Local Health Board; F1...

(b)

an NHS trust established under section 18 of the ActF2;

(c)

a Special Health Authority in relation to Wales established by the Welsh Ministers under section 22 of the Act.

(2)

For the purposes of paragraph (1), a person is not to be treated as having been in paid employment by reason only of having held the position of chair, vice-chair or non-officer member of a Local Health Board F3or a Special Health Authority, or a chair, vice-chair or non-executive director of an NHS trust.