PART 1General

Title and commencement

1.—(1) The title of these Regulations is the Digital Health and Care Wales (Membership and Procedure) Regulations 2020.

(2) These Regulations come into force on 30 December 2020.

Interpretation

2.  In these Regulations—

“the 1992 Act” (“Deddf 1992”) means the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992(1);

“the Act” (“y Ddeddf”) means the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006;

“the Order” (“y Gorchymyn”) means the Digital Health and Care Wales (Establishment and Membership) Order 2020(2);

“associate member” (“aelod cyswllt”) has the meaning given in article 4(5) of the Order;

“clinical officer” (“swyddog clinigol”) has the meaning given in article 1(3) of the Order;

“DHCW” (“IGDC”) means Digital Health and Care Wales established by the Order;

“health service body” (“corff gwasanaeth iechyd”) means—

(a)

a clinical commissioning group established under section 14D of the National Health Service Act 2006(3),

(b)

the Common Services Agency for Scottish Health Services constituted under section 10(1) of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978(4),

(c)

a Health Board or Special Health Board constituted under section 2 of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978(5),

(d)

the Health and Social Care Information Centre established under section 252 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012(6),

(e)

the Health Research Authority established under section 109 of the Care Act 2014(7),

(f)

a Local Health Board,

(g)

the National Health Service Commissioning Board established under section 1H of the National Health Service Act 2006,

(h)

an NHS foundation trust established under section 30 of the National Health Service Act 2006,

(i)

an NHS trust established under section 18 of the Act or established under section 25 of the National Health Service Act 2006,

(j)

the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence established under section 232 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012,

(k)

the Regional Health and Social Care Board established under section 7 of the Health and Social Care (Reform) Act (Northern Ireland) 2009(8),

(l)

a Special Health Authority established under section 22 of the Act;

“non-officer member” (“aelod nad yw’n swyddog”) has the meaning given in article 4(3) of the Order;

“officer member” (“aelod sy’n swyddog”) has the meaning given in article 4(4) of the Order;

“recognised” (“cydnabod”), in relation to a trade union, has the meaning given by the 1992 Act;

“trade union” (“undeb llafur”) has the meaning given by the 1992 Act.

(3)

2006 c. 41, section 14D inserted by s. 25(1) of the Health and Social Care Act 2012 c. 7.

(4)

1978 c. 29 (“the 1978 Act”), s. 10(1) amended by s. 25(3), Schedule 6 paragraph 2 of the Health Services Act 1980 c. 53.

(5)

Relevant amendments were made to section 2 of the 1978 Act by the Health and Social Services and Social Security Adjudications Act 1983 c. 41, Schedule 7 paragraph 1; Smoking, Health and Social Care (Scotland) Act 2005 asp 13, Schedule 2, paragraph 2(2); National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 c. 19, s. 28(a)(i) and (ii), s. 28(b), s. 28(c), s. 66(1) and Schedule 9 paragraph 19(1); National Health Service Reform (Scotland) Act asp 7, Schedule 1 paragraph 1(2)(a) and (b).