Paragraph 59

In Schedule 5 (authorities), insert as Part I (and in substitution for the existing heading of the Schedule)—

“Health Authorities and Special Health Authorities

Part I

Membership of Health Authorities

1

A Health Authority shall consist of—

(a)

a chairman appointed by the Secretary of State;

(b)

not more than a prescribed number of persons (not being officers of the Health Authority) appointed by the Secretary of State; and

(c)

a prescribed number of officers of the Health Authority.

2

Regulations may provide that all or any of the persons appointed as members of a Health Authority under paragraph 1(b) above—

(a)

must hold posts of a prescribed description; or

(b)

must fulfil any other prescribed conditions.

3

Regulations shall provide that each of the persons who is a member of a Health Authority under paragraph 1(c) above must either—

(a)

hold an office of the Health Authority of a prescribed description; or

(b)

be appointed by the chairman of the Health Authority and the persons appointed as members of the Health Authority under paragraph 1(b) above.

4

Regulations may provide for a person of a prescribed description who is not an officer of a Health Authority to be treated for the purposes of this Part of this Schedule, and any other prescribed provision relating to members of (or of committees or sub-committees of) Health Authorities, as if he were such an officer.”