Article 10 Health and Social Care trustsF2C1

to provide goods and services for the purposes of the health and F4social care; F5...

to exercise social care and children functions (see Article 10A); or

to exercise, on behalf of the Department, such functions as the Department may direct under Article 10B.

the Patient and Client Council, and

such other persons and bodies as the Department considers appropriate.

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the Regional Agency;

RBSO; or

a special agency.

shall be a body corporate having a board of directors consisting of a chairman appointed by the Department and, subject to paragraph 5(2) of Schedule 3, executive and non-executive directors (that is to say, directors who, subject to paragraph (6), respectively are and are not employees of the trust);

shall have the functions conferred on it by an order under paragraph (1) and by Schedule 3; and

shall be a body to which section 19 of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954F12 applies.

the qualifications for and the tenure of office of the chairman and directors of an HSC trust (including the circumstances in which they shall cease to hold, or may be removed from, office or may be suspended from performing the functions of the office);

the persons by whom the directors and any of the officers are to be appointed and the manner of their appointment;

the maximum and minimum numbers of the directors;

the circumstances in which a person who is not an employee of the trust is nevertheless, on appointment as a director, to be regarded as an executive rather than a non-executive director;

the proceedings of the trust (including the validation of proceedings in the event of a vacancy or defect in appointment); and

the appointment, constitution and exercise of functions by committees and sub-committees of the trust (whether or not consisting of or including any members of the board);

to the extent that its exercise does not to any significant extent interfere with the performance by the HSC trust of its functions or of its obligations under F14HSC contracts; and

in circumstances specified in directions under paragraph 6 of that Schedule, with the consent of the Department.