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Explanatory note

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(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Health Boards (Membership and Procedure) (Scotland) Regulations 2001 (“the Principal Regulations”) which make provision as to the membership and procedure of Health Boards established under the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 (“the 1978 Act”). Appointments to the Health Boards are made by the Scottish Ministers.

Regulation 2 adds Fife Health Board to the Health Boards listed in Regulation 3 of the Principal Regulations. For the purposes of paragraph 2A of Schedule 1 of the 1978 Act, the Health Boards listed in Regulation 3 must have at least one appointed member who holds a post at a university with a medical or dental school. The other Health Boards listed in Regulation 3 are the Boards in Grampian, Greater Glasgow, Lothian and Tayside.