Regulation 2 Amendment of Regulations

after the definition of “the Act” insert—

• ““approved mental health NHS trust” means an NHS trust whose functions include the provision of high security psychiatric services^f3 and other services^f4 for mentally ill patients and which is approved for the former purpose by the Secretary of State^f5”; and

in the definition of “health service body”^f6, in paragraph (a) after “Special Health Authority” insert “, a Primary Care Trust”.

at the beginning of paragraphs (1) and (2) insert “Subject to paragraph (3),” and

after paragraph (2) insert—

“(3)

In the case of an approved mental health NHS trust—

(a)

the maximum number of directors of the NHS trust shall be fourteen, excluding the chairman, and

(b)

the NHS trust shall have no more than seven non-executive directors (excluding the chairman) and no more than seven executive directors.”.

in paragraph (5)^f9, for the words from “the National Blood Authority” to the end substitute the following—

• 1. (a)

     “the National Blood Authority,

  2. (b)

     the National Health Service Information Authority,

  3. (c)

     the National Health Service Litigation Authority,

  4. (d)

     the National Health Service Logistics Authority^f10,

  5. (e)

     the National Institute for Clinical Excellence, or

  6. (f)

     United Kingdom Transplant^f11.”;

in paragraph (6)^f12, for “the chairman or a non-executive director of another NHS trust” substitute the following—

• 1. (a)

     “the chairman or a non-executive director of another NHS trust; or

  2. (b)

     the chairman or a non-officer member of the Ashworth Hospital Authority, the Broadmoor Hospital Authority or the Rampton Hospital Authority”;

after paragraph (6) insert—

“(7)

A person shall not be disqualified by paragraph (1)(e) from being the chairman or a non-executive director of an NHS trust by virtue of being the chairman or a non-officer member of a Primary Care Trust during the Primary Care Trust’s preparatory period^f13; and in this paragraph “non-officer member” has the same meaning as in regulation 1(2) of the Primary Care Trusts (Membership, Procedure and Administration Arrangements) Regulations 2000^f14.”.