# The Health Boards (Membership and Procedure) (No.2) Regulations 1991, Regulation 7: Vice-Chairman and committees


(1) Each Board shall appoint a member who is not also an officer of the Board to be vice-chairman and any person so appointed shall, so long as he remains a member of the Board, hold office for such period as the Board may decide.
(2) Subject to paragraph (3), each Board may, and if so directed by the Secretary of State shall, appoint committees and sub-committees for such purposes as the Board may determine, subject to such restrictions or conditions as the Board may think fit, or as the Secretary of State may direct.
(3) Any committee of the Board appointed under this regulation shall include at least one member of the Board and may include persons who are co-opted.
(4) If a Board appoints a committee to exercise any of its functions as manager of a hospital under Part V of the Mental Health (Scotland) Act 1984, it shall appoint to that committee one or more members who are not also officers of the Board and shall not appoiont any members who are officers of the Board.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/809/regulation/7 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/health-boards-membership-and-procedure-no2-regulations-1991/regulation-7
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