Regulation 4 Qualifications for appointments

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

reg 4 am (E) by National Health Service Trusts (Membership and Procedure) Amendment 2001 reg 5
reg.4 amended by National Health Service Trusts (Membership and Procedure) Amendment 2000 reg.2(4)
reg. 4(1)(c) words substituted by Health Act 1999 (Nursing and Midwifery) 2004 Sch. para. 48
reg. 4(5) words substituted by Health and Care Act 2022 (Consequential and Related Amendments and Transitional Provisions) 2022 reg. 220(3)
reg. 4(1)(c) substituted by Nursing and Midwifery Order 2001 2002 Sch. para. 7

(1)

The executive directors of an NHS trust shall include–

(a)

the chief officer of the trust;

(b)

the chief finance officer of the trust;

(c)

except in the case of a trust mentioned in paragraph (2) a medical or dental practitioner and a registered nurse or registered midwife as defined in section 10(7) of the Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Act 1979^f1.

(2)

Paragraph 1(c) shall not apply in the case of a trust–

(a)

which does not provide services directly to patients; or

(b)

whose principal function is to provide ambulance or patient transport services.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 1979 c. 36.