Regulation 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

reg. 1(2)(d) words substituted by Common Services Agency (Membership and Procedure) Amendment 2025 reg. 2(2)(a)
reg. 1(2)(f) omitted by Common Services Agency (Membership and Procedure) Amendment 2025 reg. 2(2)(b)
reg. 1(2)(ca) omitted by NHS Education for Scotland and the Common Services Agency (Transfer of Staff) 2026 reg. 3(2)
reg. 1(2)(ca) inserted by Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 (Consequential Modifications) 2011 Sch. 2 para. 13(a)

(1)

These Regulations may be cited as the Common Services Agency (Membership and Procedure) Regulations 1991 and shall come into force on 1st April 1991.

(2)

In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—

(a)

“the Act” means the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978;

(b)

“Board” means a Health Board and includes a Special Health Board;

(c)

“the Committee” means the management committee constituted in accordance with paragraph 3 of Schedule 5 of the Act^f1;

(d)

“member” means a member of the committee and includes the chairman and “members” shall be construed accordingly;

(e)

“contract” includes any arrangement including an NHS contract;

(f)

“officer” includes employee.

(3)

Unless the context otherwise requires, a reference in these Regulations to a numbered regulation is to the regulation bearing that number in these Regulations and a reference in a regulation to a numbered paragraph is to the paragraph bearing that number in that regulation.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: Paragraph 3 of Schedule 5 to the Act was amended by the 1990 Act, Schedule 5, paragraph 9.