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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-appointment-of-consultants-amendment-regulations-1990/schedule",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1990/1407",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Appointment of Consultants) Amendment Regulations 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-appointment-of-consultants-amendment-regulations-1990",
  "path": "schedule",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "NEW SCHEDULES 1A, 1B AND 1C TO THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (APPOINTMENT OF CONSULTANTS) REGULATIONS 1982",
  "text": "“SCHEDULE 1A\nAPPOINTMENTS BY A REGIONAL HEALTH AUTHORITY IN SPECIAL CASES\n1 In respect of an appointment to the post of Regional Director of Public Health to the Authority, the Authority shall constitute a Committee of eight members.\n2 All the members shall be appointed by the Authority and of those members–\n(1) two shall be lay members,\n(2) five shall be professional members and of those five–\n(a) one shall be appointed after consultation with the relevant University, and\n(b) two shall be consultants in the relevant specialty, not being employed within the region of the Authority, and of these two, one shall be appointed after consultation with the appropriate body, and\n(3) one shall be the general manager of the Authority.\n3 In respect of an appointment to the post of consultant in public health medicine to the Authority, the Authority shall constitute a Committee in accordance with paragraphs 1 and 2 above with the additional requirement that one of the professional members shall be the Regional Director of Public Health of the Authority.\n4 (1) In respect of a whole-time post which is to consist of part-time employment as a consultant in communicable disease control and part-time employment as a consultant in a hospital or group of hospitals the Authority shall constitute a Committee in accordance with Schedule 1 but with the following additional members–\n(a) one person appointed after consultation with the Faculty of Public Health Medicine;\n(b) one person appointed after consultation with–\n(i) the Royal College of Pathologists, or\n(ii) where the Authority considers that, for exceptional reasons, consulta tion with that college is inappropriate, the Royal College of Physicians; and\n(c) subject to sub-paragraph (2) below, the Director of Public Health of the District Health Authority for the district in which the applicant will be required to carry out the duties as consultant in communicable disease control.\n(2) Where the duties of consultant in communicable disease control are to be carried out in more than one district the relevant Director for the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)(c) above is the Director of Public Health of the district in which the greater part of those duties will be carried out.\nSCHEDULE 1B\nAPPOINTMENTS BY A DISTRICT HEALTH AUTHORITY\n1 In respect of an appointment to the post of Director of Public Health to a District Health Authority, the Authority shall constitute a Committee of eight members.\n2 All the members shall be appointed by the Authority and of those members–\n(1) two shall be lay members,\n(2) five shall be professional members and of those five–\n(a) one shall be appointed after consultation with the relevant University,\n(b) two shall be consultants in the relevant specialty, and of these two, one shall be appointed after consultation with the appropriate body, and\n(3) one shall be the general manager of the Authority.\n3 In respect of any other appointment by a District Health Authority to which these Regulations apply, the Authority shall constitute a Committee in accordance with paragraphs 1 and 2 above with the additional requirement that one of the professional members shall be the Director of Public Health of the Authority.\nSCHEDULE 1C\nAPPOINTMENTS BY THE SPECIAL HOSPITALS SERVICE AUTHORITY\n1 The Authority shall constitute a Committee of eight members.\n2 All the members shall be appointed by the Authority and of those members–\n(1) one shall be a lay member,\n(2) four shall be professional members and of those four–\n(a) one shall be appointed after consultation with the relevant University,\n(b) one shall be appointed after consultation with the appropriate body,\n(c) one shall be the person holding the post or performing the duties of medical director of the special hospital to which the appointment is to be made,\n(d) one shall be a member of the clinical staff of the Authority, and\n(3) one shall be the general manager.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See Cm 289, p. 34."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/1407/schedule",
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  "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."
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