{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-trusts-membership-and-procedure-regulations-1990/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-trusts-membership-and-procedure-regulations-1990/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1990/2024",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service Trusts (Membership and Procedure) Regulations 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-trusts-membership-and-procedure-regulations-1990",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Appointment of directors",
  "text": "(1) Of the non-executive directors of an NHS trust whose hospital establishment or facility is situated in England–\n(a) two shall be appointed by the Regional Health Authority in whose region the hospital establishment or facility is situated, or, if it is situated in more than one region, the Regional Health Authority in whose region it principally carries out its functions; and\n(b) the remainder, which shall include the person, if any, appointed pursuant to paragraph 3(1)(d) of Schedule 2 to the Act, shall be appointed by the Secretary of State.\n(2) All of the non-executive directors of an NHS trust whose hospital establishment or facility is situated in Wales shall be appointed by the Secretary of State.\n(3) The executive directors of an NHS trust shall be appointed by the relevant committee.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "subst (E)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/3786",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service Trusts (Membership and Procedure) Amendment (No. 2) 2001 (England) Regulations"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1996/1755",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service Trusts (Membership and Procedure) Amendment Regulations 1996"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2022/634",
      "affecting_title": "The Health and Care Act 2022 (Consequential and Related Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2022"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/2024/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:59:17.528369+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."
}