Appointment of Consultants (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013

These Regulations may be cited as the Appointment of Consultants (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013 and shall come into operation on 21st May 2013.

In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Appointment of Consultants Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996^f1.

Regulation 2 of the principal Regulations (interpretation) is amended as follows.

Before the definition of “application” insert the following definition—

• ““accredited as a consultant” means, in relation to a person, that the person’s name is included in the Specialist Register kept by the General Medical Council pursuant to section 34D of the Medical Act 1983^f1 where that person has either been appointed as a consultant by an Armed Services Consultant Appointment Board or appointed to a consultant post with an Authority;”.

After the definition of “application” insert the following definition—

• ““Authority” means the Regional Board, the Regional Agency or a Health and Social Care Trust;”.

Omit the definition of “Board”.

In the definition of “Chief Officer” for “a Board” substitute “an Authority”.

After the definition of “Chief Officer” insert the following definition—

• ““Defence Medical Services” means the medical services of the air force, army and navy of the United Kingdom, whose function is to provide primary and secondary healthcare to service personnel and entitled civilians;”.

After the definition of “consultant” insert the following definition—

• ““clinical academic posts” means posts involving both academic and clinical duties to which persons are appointed by the Queen’s University of Belfast as the substantive employer and an Authority as the honorary employer;”.

Omit the definition of “joint appointment posts”.

For the definition of “lay member” substitute—

• ““lay member” means a person who is not—

  1. (a)

     an employee of any Authority; or

  2. (b)

     except when he is also Chairman of the Authority, a medical practitioner or a dental practitioner;”.

for “a Board” substitute “an Authority”; and

for sub-paragraph (c) substitute—

“(c)

any medical practitioner whether whole-time or part-time to a post of Director of Public Health for Northern Ireland^f1.”.

for “a Board” substitute “an Authority”;

in sub-paragraph (a) omit “registered” each time it occurs; and

for sub-paragraph (b) substitute—

“(b)

in the case of an appointment of a medical practitioner, their name is included in the Specialist Register kept by the General Medical Council pursuant to section 34D of the Medical Act 1983.”.

for “Board” wherever it occurs substitute “Authority”;

for paragraph (1)(a) substitute—

“(a)

appointed to a clinical academic post;”;

in paragraph (1)(c) for “Northern Ireland Council for Postgraduate Medical and Dental Education” substitute “Northern Ireland Medical and Dental Training Agency^f1”;

for paragraph (1)(d) substitute—

“(d)

transferred from employment as a consultant—

(i)

by an Authority to another consultant post with that Authority; or

(ii)

by an Authority to a consultant post with another Authority;

where the employment of the officer would otherwise be terminated by reason of redundancy;”

after paragraph (1)(e) insert—

“(f)

a person who has been accredited as a consultant and has been appointed to a consultant post in the Defence Medical Services, and whose appointment to the staff of an Authority will be to a post in which the duties and location of the post are substantially the same as the duties and location of the post previously held in the Defence Medical Services;

(g)

a person whose last employment by an Authority was in post as a consultant, the termination of which employment was by reason of retirement and who is appointed to a consultant post in the same Authority without any significant alteration in the duties of the post.”.

for “a Board” wherever it occurs substitute “an Authority”;

at the end of paragraph (1) insert “, and for these purposes only one of the publications may be solely in electronic form.”.

Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations (Constitution of an Advisory Appointments Committee, Consultant Committee) is amended as follows.

For “Board” wherever it occurs substitute “Authority”.

In paragraph 2—

Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations (Constitution of an Advisory Appointments Committee, Consultant in Public Health Medicine Committee) is amended as follows.

In Schedule 2 for “Board” wherever it occurs substitute “Authority”.

In paragraph 2—

Schedule 3 to the principal Regulations (Constitution of an Advisory Appointments Committee, Director of Public Health Committee) is amended as follows.

For “Board” wherever it occurs substitute “Authority”.

In paragraph 2 for sub-paragraph (b) substitute—

“(b)

one shall be a lay member;”.