Regulation 5 Resignation and removal of members

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

reg. 5(1) modified for specified Health Boards (temp.) by Health Boards (Membership) 2009 reg. 3 5 Sch. para. 1(3)(a)
reg. 5(2) modified for specified Health Boards (temp.) by Health Boards (Membership) 2009 reg. 3 5 Sch. para. 1(3)(b)
reg. 5(3) modified for specified Health Boards (temp.) by Health Boards (Membership) 2009 reg. 3 5 Sch. para. 1(3)(c)

(1)

A member may resign office at any time during the period of appointment by giving notice in writing to the Scottish Ministers to this effect.

(2)

If the Scottish Ministers consider that it is not in the interests of the health service that a member of a Board should continue to hold that office they may forthwith terminate that person’s appointment.

(3)

If a member has not attended any meeting of the Board, or of any committee of which they are a member, for a period of six consecutive months, the Scottish Ministers shall forthwith terminate that person’s appointment unless the Scottish Ministers are satisfied that–

(a)

the absence was due to illness or other reasonable cause; and

(b)

the member will be able to attend meetings within such period as the Scottish Ministers consider reasonable.

(4)

Where a member who was appointed for the purposes of paragraph 2A of Schedule 1 to the Act ceases to hold the post in a university with a medical or dental school, which was held at the time of appointment for those purposes, the Scottish Ministers may terminate the appointment of that person as a member.

(5)

Where any member becomes disqualified in terms of regulation 6 that member shall forthwith cease to be a member.