Explanatory note

These Regulations make provision concerning the membership of the Health Protection Agency (“the Agency”). They also direct the Agency, when it is established on 1 April 2005, to have and to exercise certain health protection functions.

Regulations 1 to 6 come into force on 25 March. Regulation 2 prescribes the numbers of non-executive and executive members and provides for the tenure of office of the chairman and non-executive members of the Agency, regulations 3 and 4 provide for disqualification for appointment as chairman or a non-executive member, regulation 5 provides for the payments to be made by the Agency to the chairman and non-executive members and regulation 6 provides for termination of tenure of office of the chairman and non-executive members.

Regulation 7, which comes into force on 1 April, directs the Agency to undertake the designation of Yellow Fever vaccination centres in England for the purposes of the International Health Regulations 1969 and to exercise the Secretary of State’s function of the appointment of medical inspectors in relation to medical inspectors who exercise functions otherwise than in Wales.

These Regulations do not impose a cost on business.