{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-audit-health-service-bodies-auditor-panel-and-independence-regulations-2015/regulation-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2015/18",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Audit (Health Service Bodies Auditor Panel and Independence) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-audit-health-service-bodies-auditor-panel-and-independence-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement, interpretation and application",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Local Audit (Health Service Bodies Auditor Panel and Independence) Regulations 2015 and come into force on 1st April 2015.\n(2) In these Regulations—\n...\n“governing board” means—\n(a)in relation to an NHS trust, the body of executive and non-executive directors of that trust; and\n(b)in relation to an integrated care board, the members of that integrated care board;\n“health service body” means an integrated care board or an NHS trust;\n“an integrated care board” means an integrated care board established under Chapter A3 of Part 2 of the National Health Service Act 2006;\n“member of an integrated care board” means the chair, the chief executive or an ordinary member of an integrated care board as specified in the constitution of the integrated care board as a member of that board;\n...\n“a non-executive member” means—\n(a)...\n(b)in relation to an NHS trust, a person who is a non-executive director of that trust.\n(3) These Regulations apply to health service bodies.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 1(2) omitted (1.7.2022) by virtue of The Health and Care Act 2022 (Consequential and Related Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/634), regs. 1(2), 76(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Regulations substituted (1.7.2022) by The Health and Care Act 2022 (Consequential and Related Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/634), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 1(1)(3) (with Sch. para. 1(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 1(2) substituted (1.7.2022) by The Health and Care Act 2022 (Consequential and Related Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/634), regs. 1(2), 76(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 1(2) inserted (1.7.2022) by The Health and Care Act 2022 (Consequential and Related Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/634), regs. 1(2), 76(2)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 1(2) omitted (1.7.2022) by virtue of The Health and Care Act 2022 (Consequential and Related Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/634), regs. 1(2), 76(2)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 1(2) omitted (1.7.2022) by virtue of The Health and Care Act 2022 (Consequential and Related Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/634), regs. 1(2), 76(2)(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 1 in force at 1.4.2015, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "An NHS trust is a body established under section 25(1) of the 2006 Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See paragraph 3(1)(b) of Schedule 4 to the 2006 Act as to executive and non-executive directors of NHS trusts."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "For the purposes of these Regulations, the meaning of “health service body” is narrower than the definition given in section 3(9) of, and paragraph 4 of Schedule 13, to the Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/18/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:50:18.262861+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}