# National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978, Paragraph 3

Extent: S

(1) Without prejudice to any amendment made by subsequent order, the first order to be made in relation to any NHS trust shall specify—
(a) the name of the trust;
(b) the functions of the trust;
(c) the number of executive directors and trustees;
(d) where the trust is to be regarded as having a significant teaching commitment, a provision to secure the inclusion in the trustees referred to in paragraph (c) of a person appointed from a university with a medical or dental school specified in the order;
(e) the operational date of the trust, that is to say, the date on which the trust is to begin to undertake the whole of the functions conferred on it; and
(f) if a scheme is to be made under section 12B, the body (being a Health Board or the Agency) which is to make the scheme.
(2) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)(d), an NHS trust is to be regarded as having a significant teaching commitment in the following cases—
(a) if the trust is established to provide services at a hospital or other establishment or facility which, in the opinion of the Secretary of State, has a significant teaching and research commitment; and
(b) in any other case, if the Secretary of State so provides in the order.
(a) is employed by the university in question; and
(b) would also, apart from this sub-paragraph, be regarded as employed by the trust,
his employment by the trust shall be disregarded in determining whether, if appointed, he will be a trustee of the trust.
(4) An order shall specify the accounting date of the trust.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1978/29/schedule/7A/paragraph/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-scotland-act-1978/schedule-7A/paragraph-3
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